Psalms 35:5-26

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, the angel of the LORD thrusting them.

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

⁷For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, without cause have they digged 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 the LORD; it shall rejoice in His salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say: 'LORD, 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 spoileth him?'

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

¹²They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.

¹⁴I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.

¹⁵But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;

¹⁶With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

¹⁸I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise Thee among a numerous people.

¹⁹Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies 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 matters against them that are quiet in the land.

²¹Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'

²²Thou hast seen, O LORD; keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

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

²⁵Let them not say in their heart: 'Aha, we have our desire'; let them not say: 'We have swallowed him up.'

²⁶Let them be ashamed and abashed together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and confusion that magnify themselves against me.