Psalms 35
1 Of David - contend! O Yahweh with opponents my fight with [those who] fight with me.
Of David. Contend, Lord, with those who contend with me, do battle with those who do battle with me.
2 Take hold of shield and body shield and arise! help my.
Grasp shield and buckler, and rise up as my help.
3 And draw out a spear and lance to meet pursuers my say to self my [am] salvation your I.
Draw spear and battle-axe, confront those who pursue me. Assure me that you will help me.
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.
Dishonour and shame be on those who are seeking my life! Defeat and confusion on those who are planning my hurt!
5 May they be like chaff before a wind and [the] angel of Yahweh pushing.
As chaff before wind may they be, with the Lord’s angel pursuing them.
6 May it be way their darkness and slippery places and [the] angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Slippery and dark be their way, with his angel thrusting them on.
7 For without cause they have hidden for me [the] pit of net their without cause they have dug for life my.
For they wantonly hid their net for me, and dug a pit to destroy me.
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.
Upon them may ruin come unawares; may the net which they hid catch themselves, and into the pit may they fall.
9 And self my it will rejoice in Yahweh it will exult in salvation his.
Then I will exult in the Lord, and be joyful because of his help;
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.
and all my being will say, ‘Who, O Lord, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those who despoil them?’
11 They rise up! witnesses of violence [that] which not I know they ask me.
Violent witnesses rise, and ask of me things that I know not.
12 They repay me harm in place of good bereavement [belongs] to self my.
Evil for good they requite me, leaving me inwardly comfortless.
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 when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
14 Like a friend like a brother of me I went about like a mourner of a mother mourning I bowed.
as if for my friend or my brother. I went about bowed and in mourning, as one who laments 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.
When I stumbled, they gleefully gathered, strangers gathered around me, and tore at me without ceasing,
16 Godless [ones] of mockers of cake they gnashed towards me teeth their.
impiously mocking and mocking, bearing 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, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions.
18 I will give thanks to you in [the] assembly great among a people numerous I will praise you.
I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people.
19 May not they rejoice to me enemies my falsehood [those who] hate me without cause let them wink an eye.
Suffer not those to rejoice over me who are falsely my foes, suffer not those who without cause abhor me to wink with the eye.
20 For not peace they speak and on [the] quiet [people] of [the] land words of deceit they plan!
For it is not peace that they speak of those who are quiet in the land; but treacherous charges they plot.
21 And they have opened wide on me mouth their they have said aha! - aha! it has seen eyes our.
With wide open mouths they shout, ‘Hurrah! Hurrah! With our own eyes we saw it.’
22 You have seen O Yahweh may not you be silent O Lord may not you be distant from me.
But you have seen, too, O Lord, 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.
Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my Lord, for my cause.
24 Vindicate me according to righteousness your O Yahweh God my and may not they rejoice to me.
You are just, Lord: win for me justice, 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.
inwardly saying, ‘Hurrah! The desire of our hearts at last! Now 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.
Shame and confusion together on those who rejoice at my hurt! Clothed with shame and dishonour be those who are haughty to 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 such as delight in my cause ring out their gladness, and say evermore, ‘Great is the Lord whose delight is the well-being of his servant.’
28 And tongue my it will utter righteousness your all the day praise your.
Then my tongue will tell of your justice, and all the day long of your praise.
