Psalms 35
1 Of David - contend! O Yahweh with opponents my fight with [those who] fight with me.
Strive thou, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and body shield and arise! help my.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
3 And draw out a spear and lance to meet pursuers my say to self my [am] salvation your I.
Draw out the spear also, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am thy salvation.
4 May they be ashamed and they may be humiliated [those who] seek life my may they be turned back backwards and may they be abashed [those who] plot harm my.
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.
5 May they be like chaff before a wind and [the] angel of Yahweh pushing.
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of Jehovah driving them on.
6 May it be way their darkness and slippery places and [the] angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of Jehovah pursuing them.
7 For without cause they have hidden for me [the] pit of net their without cause they have dug for life my.
For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 May it come to him destruction [which] not he knows and net his which he hid may it catch him in destruction may he fall in it.
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
9 And self my it will rejoice in Yahweh it will exult in salvation his.
And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 All bones my - they will say O Yahweh who? [is] like you [one who] delivers a poor [person] from a person [too] strong for him and [the] poor and [the] needy from [one who] robs him.
All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
11 They rise up! witnesses of violence [that] which not I know they ask me.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.
12 They repay me harm in place of good bereavement [belongs] to self my.
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
13 And I - when were sick they clothing my [was] sackcloth I humbled with fasting self my and prayer my to bosom my it returned.
But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
14 Like a friend like a brother of me I went about like a mourner of a mother mourning I bowed.
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.
15 And at stumbling my they rejoiced and they gathered they gathered on me smitten [people] and not I knew they tore and not they were still.
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. They tore me, and ceased not.
16 Godless [ones] of mockers of cake they gnashed towards me teeth their.
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 O Lord how long? will you look bring back! life my from ravages their from young lions only [life] my.
Lord, how long will thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18 I will give thanks to you in [the] assembly great among a people numerous I will praise you.
I will give thee thanks in the great assembly. I will praise thee among much people.
19 May not they rejoice to me enemies my falsehood [those who] hate me without cause let them wink an eye.
Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
20 For not peace they speak and on [the] quiet [people] of [the] land words of deceit they plan!
For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
21 And they have opened wide on me mouth their they have said aha! - aha! it has seen eyes our.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
22 You have seen O Yahweh may not you be silent O Lord may not you be distant from me.
Thou have seen it, O Jehovah. Keep not silence. O Lord, be not far from me.
23 Wake up! and awake! for judgment my O God my and O Lord for cause my.
Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord.
24 Vindicate me according to righteousness your O Yahweh God my and may not they rejoice to me.
Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.
25 May not they say in heart their aha! desire our may not they say we have swallowed him.
Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26 May they be ashamed and they may be abashed - altogether [the] [people] joyful of distress my may they be clothed shame and ignominy who magnify themselves on me.
Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
27 May they shout for joy and they may rejoice [the] [people] desirous of righteousness my and may they say continually may he be great Yahweh desiring [the] welfare of servant his.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28 And tongue my it will utter righteousness your all the day praise your.
And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
