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Psalms - ch 35 v 1 - 20
- Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
- Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
- Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
- Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
- Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
- Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
- For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
- My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
- All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
- They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
- But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
- Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
- I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
- Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
- For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
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