Psalms 35:9-16

⁹Then I will be joyful about what you, Yahweh, have done for me, I will be glad that you have rescued me.

¹⁰With my whole inner being SYN I will say, “There is no one like Yahweh RHQ! No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people RHQ. No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”

¹¹People who tell lies stand in court and falsely accuse me of doing things that I do not know anything about.

¹²In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me, with the result that I feel that I am alone.

¹³When they were ill, I showed that I was sad. I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed for them.

¹⁴I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed as though it was a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.

¹⁵But when I had troubles, they were all happy about it. They gathered around to make fun of me. Strangers struck me, and they would not stop.

¹⁶Worthless people ridicule me and snarl at me.