{Psa 35-41, 53, 55, 58 **}
35:1 Contend, O Jehovah, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for my help. 35:3 Draw out the spear also and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation.
35:4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned- back and confounded who devise my hurt. 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind and the messenger of Jehovah driving them on. 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them.
35:7 Because without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him, he will not know and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
35:9 And my soul will be joyful in Jehovah. It will rejoice in his salvation. 35:10 All my bones will say, Jehovah, who is like you, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yes, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I do not know. 35:12 They reward me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into my own bosom.35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who weeps for his mother.
35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The slayers gathered themselves together against me and I did not know it. They tore me and ceased not. 35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the lions. 35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
35:19 Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
35:20 Because they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
35:22 You have seen it, O Jehovah. Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me. 35:23 Stir up yourself and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord. 35:24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to your righteousness and do not let them rejoice over me.
35:25 Do not let them say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up. 35:26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who have become great against me.
35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, Jehovah become great, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 35:28 And my tongue will talk of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.