Psalms 35:16-28

¹⁶With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷O Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, from the young lions my solitary spirit.

¹⁸I will thank thee in the great assembly: among a mighty people will I praise thee.

¹⁹Let not rejoice over me those that are my enemies wrongfully: nor let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

²⁰For they speak not peace; but against the quiet in the land they devise deceitful words.

²¹Yea, they opened wide against me their mouth; they said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

²²Thou hast seen it, O Lord! remain not silent: O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.

²⁴Judge me according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Let them not say in their heart, Aha, this is the wish of our soul: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

²⁶Let those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that rejoice at my mishap; let them be clothed with shame and confusion that magnify themselves above me.

²⁷Let those shout, and rejoice, that desire my righteousness: yea, let them say continually, Great is the Lord, who desireth the welfare of his servant.

²⁸And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness, all the day of thy praise.