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Chapter 35
Psal ACV 35:1  Strive thou, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.
Psal ACV 35:2  Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Psal ACV 35:3  Draw out the spear also, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psal ACV 35:4  Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.
Psal ACV 35:5  Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of Jehovah driving them on.
Psal ACV 35:6  Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of Jehovah pursuing them.
Psal ACV 35:7  For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psal ACV 35:8  Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
Psal ACV 35:9  And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
Psal ACV 35:10  All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
Psal ACV 35:11  Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.
Psal ACV 35:12  They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
Psal ACV 35:13  But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psal ACV 35:14  I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.
Psal ACV 35:15  But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. They tore me, and ceased not.
Psal ACV 35:16  Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Psal ACV 35:17  Lord, how long will thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Psal ACV 35:18  I will give thee thanks in the great assembly. I will praise thee among much people.
Psal ACV 35:19  Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
Psal ACV 35:20  For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psal ACV 35:21  Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
Psal ACV 35:22  Thou have seen it, O Jehovah. Keep not silence. O Lord, be not far from me.
Psal ACV 35:23  Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psal ACV 35:24  Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.
Psal ACV 35:25  Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psal ACV 35:26  Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psal ACV 35:27  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Psal ACV 35:28  And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.