Psalms 35

1 [A Psalm] of David. Judge you, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.

A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.

Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.

3 Bring forth a sword, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.

4 Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.

Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

5 Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.

6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.

7 For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.

8 Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

9 But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.

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

10 All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

All 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!

11 Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

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

12 They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

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

13 But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my [own] bosom.

Yet 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.

14 I behaved agreeably towards them as [if it had been] our neighbor [or] brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

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

15 Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not: they were scattered, but repented not.

But 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,

16 They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

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

17 O Lord, when will you look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, mine only-begotten one from the lions.

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

18 I will give thanks to you even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise you.

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

19 Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

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

20 For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in [their] anger.

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

21 And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen [it].

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

22 You have seen [it], O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not [yourself] from me.

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

23 Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, [even] to my cause, my God and my Lord.

Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O Lord, according to your righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me.

Iudge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee.

25 Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, [it is pleasing] to our soul: neither let them say, We have devoured him.

Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.

26 Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.

27 Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad: and let them say continually, The Lord be magnified, who desire the peace of his servant.

But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.

28 And my tongue shall meditate on your righteousness, [and] on your praise all the day.

And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.