Psalms 35
1 to/for David to contend [emph?] LORD with opponent my to fight with to fight me
Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; 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 up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
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
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to 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
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 to be like/as chaff to/for face: before spirit: breath and messenger: angel LORD to thrust
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
6 to be way: conduct their darkness and smoothness and messenger: angel LORD to pursue them
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
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 laid their net for me; without reason they 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
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
9 and soul my to rejoice in/on/with LORD to rejoice in/on/with salvation his
Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and exult 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 will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
11 to arise: rise [emph?] witness violence which not to know to ask me
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
12 to complete me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare bereavement to/for soul my
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement 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
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
14 like/as neighbor like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to go: walk like/as mourning mother be dark to bow
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for 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 when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
16 in/on/with profane mocking bun to grind upon me tooth their
Like godless jesters at a feast, 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
How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
18 to give thanks you in/on/with assembly many in/on/with people mighty to boast: praise you
Then 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
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
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 schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
21 and to enlarge upon me lip their to say Aha! Aha! to see: see eye our
They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
22 to see: see LORD not be quiet Lord not to remove from me
O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
23 to rouse [emph?] and to awake [emph?] to/for justice: judgement my God my and Lord to/for strife my
Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
24 to judge me like/as righteousness your LORD God my and not to rejoice to/for me
Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and 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
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not 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
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 to sing and to rejoice delighting righteousness my and to say continually to magnify LORD [the] delighting peace: well-being servant/slave 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 to mutter righteousness your all [the] day praise your
Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.
