Psalms 35:9-22

⁹Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!

¹¹Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.

¹²They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.

¹³Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.

¹⁴I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

¹⁵But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

¹⁶With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.

¹⁸So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.

²⁰For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

²¹And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.

²²Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.