Psalms 35:5-21

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.

⁷For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

⁸Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

⁹And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah: It shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

¹²They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

¹⁴I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

¹⁵But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

¹⁶Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great assembly: I will praise thee among much people.

¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

²⁰For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

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