Psalms 35:9-22

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 afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

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

¹⁴I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.

¹⁵But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

¹⁶With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

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

¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people.

¹⁹Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.

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

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

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