Psalms 35
1 Of David - contend! O Yahweh with opponents my fight with [those who] fight with me.
Yahweh, fight against those who fight against me! Fight against [my enemies] when they fight me!
2 Take hold of shield and body shield and arise! help my.
Be [like] a shield [DOU] to protect me and come to help me!
3 And draw out a spear and lance to meet pursuers my say to self my [am] salvation your I.
Lift up your spear [DOU] and [throw it] at those who pursue me! Promise me that you will enable me to defeat [my enemies].
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.
Cause those who are trying to kill me to be defeated and disgraced! Cause those who are planning to do evil things to me to be pushed back and become confused!
5 May they be like chaff before a wind and [the] angel of Yahweh pushing.
Send your angel to pursue them, and as a result cause them to disappear like chaff/straw blown away by the wind!
6 May it be way their darkness and slippery places and [the] angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Cause the path on which they run to be dark and slippery as your angel pursues them!
7 For without cause they have hidden for me [the] pit of net their without cause they have dug for life my.
Although I did not do anything wrong to them, they concealed a deep pit for me to fall into; they hid a net in which they would catch 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.
Cause them to suddenly experience disaster! Cause them to be trapped in their own nets! Cause them to fall into the pits that they have dug for me and disappear!
9 And self my it will rejoice in Yahweh it will exult in salvation his.
Then I will be joyful about what you, Yahweh, have done for me, I will be glad that you have rescued me.
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.
With my whole inner being [SYN] I will say, “There is no one like Yahweh [RHQ]! No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people [RHQ]. No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”
11 They rise up! witnesses of violence [that] which not I know they ask me.
People who tell lies stand in court and falsely accuse me of doing things that I do not know [anything] about.
12 They repay me harm in place of good bereavement [belongs] to self my.
In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me, with the result that I feel that I am alone.
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.
When they were ill, I showed that I was sad. I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed [for them].
14 Like a friend like a brother of me I went about like a mourner of a mother mourning I bowed.
I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed as though it was a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.
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 had troubles, they were all happy about it. They gathered around to make fun of me. Strangers struck me, and they would not stop.
16 Godless [ones] of mockers of cake they gnashed towards me teeth their.
Worthless people ridicule me and snarl at me.
17 O Lord how long? will you look bring back! life my from ravages their from young lions only [life] my.
Yahweh, how long will you only watch them doing this? Rescue me from their attacking me; Save me from being killed by these men who are attacking me like [MET] lions [that are attacking other animals]
18 I will give thanks to you in [the] assembly great among a people numerous I will praise you.
Then, when many of your people gather, I will praise you and I will thank you in front of all of them.
19 May not they rejoice to me enemies my falsehood [those who] hate me without cause let them wink an eye.
Do not allow my enemies, who tell lies about me, defeat me and then rejoice! Do not allow those who hate me when there in no reason to hate me to (smirk/smile happily)!
20 For not peace they speak and on [the] quiet [people] of [the] land words of deceit they plan!
They do not talk peacefully to people; instead, they seek ways to tell lies about people who are peaceful.
21 And they have opened wide on me mouth their they have said aha! - aha! it has seen eyes our.
They shout at me, to accuse me, saying, “We saw the wrong things that you did!”
22 You have seen O Yahweh may not you be silent O Lord may not you be distant from me.
Yahweh, you have seen these things, so do not be silent! Do not stay far from me!
23 Wake up! and awake! for judgment my O God my and O Lord for cause my.
Arise, my God, and plead my case in court, and successfully defend me!
24 Vindicate me according to righteousness your O Yahweh God my and may not they rejoice to me.
Yahweh, my God, because you are righteous, prove that I am innocent in order that my enemies will not be able to gloat [that I was judged to be guilty].
25 May not they say in heart their aha! desire our may not they say we have swallowed him.
Do not allow them to be able to say to themselves, “Yes, we have gotten rid of him [IDM] just like we desired!”
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.
Cause those who rejoice about my misfortunes to be completely defeated and disgraced; cause those who boast that they are much greater than me to be disgraced and dishonored!
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.
But cause those who desire that I be acquitted to be happy and shout joyfully, and cause them to continually say, “Yahweh is great! He is delighted to cause things to go well for those who serve him.”
28 And tongue my it will utter righteousness your all the day praise your.
Then I will proclaim that you act righteously, and I will praise you all day long.
