< Psalms 35 >
1 to/for David to contend [emph?] LORD with opponent my to fight with to fight me
Yahweh, fight against those who fight against me! Fight against [my enemies] when they fight me!
2 to strengthen: hold shield and shield and to arise: rise [emph?] in/on/with help my
Be [like] a shield [DOU] to protect me and come to help me!
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
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 be ashamed and be humiliated to seek soul: life my to turn back and be ashamed to devise: devise distress: evil 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 to be like/as chaff to/for face: before spirit: breath and messenger: angel LORD to thrust
Send your angel to pursue them, and as a result cause them to disappear like chaff/straw blown away by the wind!
6 to be way: conduct their darkness and smoothness and messenger: angel LORD to pursue them
Cause the path on which they run to be dark and slippery as your angel pursues them!
7 for for nothing to hide to/for me pit: grave net their for nothing to search to/for soul: 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 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
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 soul my to rejoice in/on/with LORD to rejoice in/on/with 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 bone my to say LORD who? like you to rescue afflicted from strong from him and afflicted and needy from to plunder 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 to arise: rise [emph?] witness violence which not to know to ask me
People who tell lies stand in court and falsely accuse me of doing things that I do not know [anything] about.
12 to complete me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare bereavement to/for soul 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 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
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/as neighbor like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to go: walk like/as mourning mother be dark to bow
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 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 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 in/on/with profane mocking bun to grind upon me tooth their
Worthless people ridicule me and snarl at me.
17 Lord like/as what? to see: see to return: rescue [emph?] soul: myself my from ravage their from lion only 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 to give thanks you in/on/with assembly many in/on/with people mighty to boast: 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 not to rejoice to/for me enemy my deception to hate me for nothing to wink 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 to speak: speak and upon restful land: country/planet word deceit to devise: design [emph?]
They do not talk peacefully to people; instead, they seek ways to tell lies about people who are peaceful.
21 and to enlarge upon me lip their to say Aha! Aha! to see: see eye our
They shout at me, to accuse me, saying, “We saw the wrong things that you did!”
22 to see: see LORD not be quiet Lord not to remove from me
Yahweh, you have seen these things, so do not be silent! Do not stay far from me!
23 to rouse [emph?] and to awake [emph?] to/for justice: judgement my God my and Lord to/for strife my
Arise, my God, and plead my case in court, and successfully defend me!
24 to judge me like/as righteousness your LORD God my and not to rejoice to/for 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 not to say in/on/with heart their Aha! soul our not to say to swallow up 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 be ashamed and be ashamed together glad distress: harm my to clothe shame and shame [the] to magnify upon 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 to sing and to rejoice delighting righteousness my and to say continually to magnify LORD [the] delighting peace: well-being servant/slave 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 to mutter righteousness your all [the] day praise your
Then I will proclaim that you act righteously, and I will praise you all day long.