­PSA 35:1  Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against

 them that fight against me.

 

­PSA 35:2  Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

 

­PSA 35:3  Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute

 me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

 

­PSA 35:4  Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let

 them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

 

­PSA 35:5  Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD

 chase them.

 

­PSA 35:6  Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD

 persecute them.

 

­PSA 35:7  For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which

 without cause they have digged for my soul.

 

­PSA 35:8  Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he

 hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

 

­PSA 35:9  And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his

 salvation.

 

­PSA 35:10  All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which

 deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and

 the needy from him that spoileth him?

 

­PSA 35:11  False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I

 knew not.

 

­PSA 35:12  They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

 

­PSA 35:13  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I

 humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

 

­PSA 35:14  I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed

 down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

 

­PSA 35:15  But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves

 together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I

 knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

 

­PSA 35:16  With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their

 teeth.

 

­PSA 35:17  Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their

 destructions, my darling from the lions.

 

­PSA 35:18  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise

 thee among much people.

 

­PSA 35:19  Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:

 neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

 

­PSA 35:20  For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against

 them that are quiet in the land.

 

­PSA 35:21  Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha,

 our eye hath seen it.

 

­PSA 35:22  This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far

 from me.

 

­PSA 35:23  Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my

 God and my Lord.

 

­PSA 35:24  Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let

 them not rejoice over me.

 

­PSA 35:25  Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them

 not say, We have swallowed him up.

 

­PSA 35:26  Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice

 at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify

 themselves against me.

 

­PSA 35:27  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause:

 yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure

 in the prosperity of his servant.

 

­PSA 35:28  And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all

 the day long.