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Chapter 35 |
| 1 | Plead my
cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight
against me. |
| 2
| Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine
help. |
| 3 |
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. |
| 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. |
| 5 | Let them be as
chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. |
| 6 |
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute
them. |
| 7 |
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul. |
| 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. |
| 9 | And my soul
shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. |
| 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? |
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11 | False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge
things that I knew not. |
| 12 | They rewarded me evil for good to the
spoiling of my soul. |
| 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. |
| 14 | I behaved myself as though he had been my
friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his
mother. |
| 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: |
| 16 | With
hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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| 17 | Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions. |
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18 | I will give thee thanks in
the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. |
| 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. |
| 20 | For they
speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet
in the land. |
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21 | Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. |
| 22 | This thou hast seen, O LORD:
keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. |
| 23 | Stir up
thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my
Lord. |
| 24 |
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me. |
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25 | Let them not say in their hearts, Ah,
so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 28 | And my
tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. |
