Psalms 35
1 Of David - contend! O Yahweh with opponents my fight with [those who] fight with me.
Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and body shield and arise! help my.
Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
3 And draw out a spear and lance to meet pursuers my say to self my [am] salvation your I.
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your 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.
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
5 May they be like chaff before a wind and [the] angel of Yahweh pushing.
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
6 May it be way their darkness and slippery places and [the] angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
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 laid their net for me; without reason they 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.
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
9 And self my it will rejoice in Yahweh it will exult in salvation his.
Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and exult 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 will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
11 They rise up! witnesses of violence [that] which not I know they ask me.
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
12 They repay me harm in place of good bereavement [belongs] to self my.
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement 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.
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
14 Like a friend like a brother of me I went about like a mourner of a mother mourning I bowed.
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for 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 when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
16 Godless [ones] of mockers of cake they gnashed towards me teeth their.
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 O Lord how long? will you look bring back! life my from ravages their from young lions only [life] my.
How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
18 I will give thanks to you in [the] assembly great among a people numerous I will praise you.
Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
19 May not they rejoice to me enemies my falsehood [those who] hate me without cause let them wink an eye.
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
20 For not peace they speak and on [the] quiet [people] of [the] land words of deceit they plan!
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
21 And they have opened wide on me mouth their they have said aha! - aha! it has seen eyes our.
They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
22 You have seen O Yahweh may not you be silent O Lord may not you be distant from me.
O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
23 Wake up! and awake! for judgment my O God my and O Lord for cause my.
Awake and rise to my defense, 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.
Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat 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 hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” 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.
May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
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.
May those who favor my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the LORD who delights in His servant’s well-being.”
28 And tongue my it will utter righteousness your all the day praise your.
Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.
