Psalms 35
1 A psalm of David. Oppose my opponents, Lord; fight those who are fighting against me.
to/for David to contend [emph?] LORD with opponent my to fight with to fight me
2 Put your armor on, and pick up your shield. Get ready, come and help me.
to strengthen: hold shield and shield and to arise: rise [emph?] in/on/with help my
3 Draw your spear and your javelin, confront those who are chasing me. Tell me, “I am your salvation!”
and to empty spear and to shut to/for to encounter: toward to pursue me to say to/for soul my salvation your I
4 Shame them! Humiliate those who are trying to kill me! Turn them back! Disgrace those who are planning to hurt me!
be ashamed and be humiliated to seek soul: life my to turn back and be ashamed to devise: devise distress: evil my
5 Let them be like chaff blown by the wind; let the angel of the Lord drive them away.
to be like/as chaff to/for face: before spirit: breath and messenger: angel LORD to thrust
6 May their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord chasing them down.
to be way: conduct their darkness and smoothness and messenger: angel LORD to pursue them
7 For no reason they set a net to catch me; for no reason they dug a pit to trap me.
for for nothing to hide to/for me pit: grave net their for nothing to search to/for soul: life my
8 Let disaster come on them suddenly; let the net they set catch them instead; let the pit they dug trap them instead.
to come (in): come him devastation not to know and net his which to hide to capture him in/on/with devastation to fall: fall in/on/with her
9 Then I will be glad in the Lord; I will be happy in his salvation.
and soul my to rejoice in/on/with LORD to rejoice in/on/with salvation his
10 Every part of me will say, Who can compare to you, Lord? You rescue the weak from the strong; the poor and needy from robbers.
all bone my to say LORD who? like you to rescue afflicted from strong from him and afflicted and needy from to plunder him
11 Hostile witnesses stand up to testify against me, accusing me of crimes I don't know anything about.
to arise: rise [emph?] witness violence which not to know to ask me
12 They pay me back with evil instead of good. I feel like giving up.
to complete me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare bereavement to/for soul my
13 But when they were sick, I put on clothes of sackcloth in sympathy. I denied myself through fasting. May my prayer for them return to bless me too.
and I in/on/with be weak: ill they clothing my sackcloth to afflict in/on/with fast soul: myself my and prayer my upon bosom: embrace my to return: return
14 I was upset for them, as if they were my own friends or family; I bowed down in grief as if I was mourning my own mother.
like/as neighbor like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to go: walk like/as mourning mother be dark to bow
15 But when I was in trouble, they gathered around and laughed at me. Even strangers I don't know attacked me, constantly tearing me apart.
and in/on/with stumbling my to rejoice and to gather to gather upon me smitten and not to know to tear and not to silence: stationary
16 Like irreligious people mocking a cripple they mock me and call me names, gnashing their teeth at me.
in/on/with profane mocking bun to grind upon me tooth their
17 How long, Lord, will you sit by and just watch? Save me from their vicious attacks; defend the only life I have from these lions.
Lord like/as what? to see: see to return: rescue [emph?] soul: myself my from ravage their from lion only my
18 Then I will thank you in front of the whole congregation and praise you in front of all the people.
to give thanks you in/on/with assembly many in/on/with people mighty to boast: praise you
19 Don't let my enemies take pleasure in my troubles, those people who hate me and tell lies about me, gloating over me for no reason.
not to rejoice to/for me enemy my deception to hate me for nothing to wink eye
20 They are not looking for peace; they invent malicious and deceptive schemes against innocent peace-loving people.
for not peace to speak: speak and upon restful land: country/planet word deceit to devise: design [emph?]
21 They open their mouths wide to make accusations against me, saying, “Look! Look! We saw it with our own eyes!”
and to enlarge upon me lip their to say Aha! Aha! to see: see eye our
22 But Lord, you've seen all this! Say something! Don't give up on me, Lord!
to see: see LORD not be quiet Lord not to remove from me
23 Wake up! Get up and defend me, my Lord and my God! Take up my case and make sure justice is done!
to rouse [emph?] and to awake [emph?] to/for justice: judgement my God my and Lord to/for strife my
24 Vindicate me, my Lord and my God, because you are just and right. Don't let them gloat over me.
to judge me like/as righteousness your LORD God my and not to rejoice to/for me
25 Don't let them say to themselves, “Look! We got what we wanted!” Don't let them say, “We completely destroyed him!”
not to say in/on/with heart their Aha! soul our not to say to swallow up him
26 Make them totally ashamed, all those who are happy for the trouble I'm in. Let those who are celebrating over me be covered with shame and dishonor.
be ashamed and be ashamed together glad distress: harm my to clothe shame and shame [the] to magnify upon me
27 Instead let those who are pleased I've been vindicated celebrate and shout for joy. Let them always say, “How great is the Lord! He is happy when his servants live in peace and have what they need.”
to sing and to rejoice delighting righteousness my and to say continually to magnify LORD [the] delighting peace: well-being servant/slave his
28 I will tell others about your character of truth and right, praising you all day long!
and tongue my to mutter righteousness your all [the] day praise your
