Psalms 35:6-20

⁶May their way be dark and slippery: and may the angel of the Lord pursue them.

⁷For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit, without cause have they dug pit-falls against my life.

⁸May then destruction come upon each of them at unawares; and may his net that he hath hidden catch himself: in utter destruction let him fall therein.

⁹But my soul shall exult in the Lord: she shall be glad through his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones will 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 robbeth him?

¹¹There rise up witnesses of violence; concerning what I know not they question me.

¹²They recompense me with evil in place of good, bringing bereavement on my soul.

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

¹⁴As though he had been to me a friend or a brother did I walk about: as one that mourneth for a mother did I sorrowfully bend down my head.

¹⁵But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

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.