Psalm 35
A Psalm of David.
Fight thou against them that fight against me.
And stand up for my help.
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.
And let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
With destruction let him fall therein.
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?
They ask me of things that I know not.
To the bereaving of my soul.
I afflicted my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not;
They did tear me, and ceased not:
They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Rescue my soul from their destructions,
My darling from the lions.
I will praise thee among much people.
Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
O Lord, be not far from me.
Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
And let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified,
Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
And of thy praise all the day long.