Psalms 35
1 to/for David to contend [emph?] LORD with opponent my to fight with to fight me
By David. Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
2 to strengthen: hold shield and shield and to arise: rise [emph?] in/on/with help my
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
3 and to empty spear and to shut to/for to encounter: toward to pursue me to say to/for soul my salvation your I
Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
4 be ashamed and be humiliated to seek soul: life my to turn back and be ashamed to devise: devise distress: evil my
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
5 to be like/as chaff to/for face: before spirit: breath and messenger: angel LORD to thrust
Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.
6 to be way: conduct their darkness and smoothness and messenger: angel LORD to pursue them
Let their way be dark and slippery, the LORD’s angel pursuing them.
7 for for nothing to hide to/for me pit: grave net their for nothing to search to/for soul: life my
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 to come (in): come him devastation not to know and net his which to hide to capture him in/on/with devastation to fall: fall in/on/with her
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
9 and soul my to rejoice in/on/with LORD to rejoice in/on/with salvation his
My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 all bone my to say LORD who? like you to rescue afflicted from strong from him and afflicted and needy from to plunder him
All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
11 to arise: rise [emph?] witness violence which not to know to ask me
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I do not know about.
12 to complete me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare bereavement to/for soul my
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
13 and I in/on/with be weak: ill they clothing my sackcloth to afflict in/on/with fast soul: myself my and prayer my upon bosom: embrace my to return: return
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
14 like/as neighbor like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to go: walk like/as mourning mother be dark to bow
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
15 and in/on/with stumbling my to rejoice and to gather to gather upon me smitten and not to know to tear and not to silence: stationary
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.
16 in/on/with profane mocking bun to grind upon me tooth their
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 Lord like/as what? to see: see to return: rescue [emph?] soul: myself my from ravage their from lion only my
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
18 to give thanks you in/on/with assembly many in/on/with people mighty to boast: praise you
I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
19 not to rejoice to/for me enemy my deception to hate me for nothing to wink eye
Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
20 for not peace to speak: speak and upon restful land: country/planet word deceit to devise: design [emph?]
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
21 and to enlarge upon me lip their to say Aha! Aha! to see: see eye our
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
22 to see: see LORD not be quiet Lord not to remove from me
You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.
23 to rouse [emph?] and to awake [emph?] to/for justice: judgement my God my and Lord to/for strife my
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
24 to judge me like/as righteousness your LORD God my and not to rejoice to/for me
Vindicate me, LORD my God, according to your righteousness. Do not let them gloat over me.
25 not to say in/on/with heart their Aha! soul our not to say to swallow up him
Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
26 be ashamed and be ashamed together glad distress: harm my to clothe shame and shame [the] to magnify upon me
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
27 to sing and to rejoice delighting righteousness my and to say continually to magnify LORD [the] delighting peace: well-being servant/slave his
Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
28 and tongue my to mutter righteousness your all [the] day praise your
My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
