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class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">fight against those who fight against me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Take hold of shield and buckler,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and rise up to help me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Draw the spear and javelin</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">against my pursuers;</span></span><br /><span class="text">say to my soul,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“I am your salvation.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Let them be put to shame and dishonor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who seek after my life.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Let them be turned back and confounded</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who devise evil against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Let them be like chaff before the wind,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with the angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> driving them on.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Let their way be dark and slippery,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with the angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> pursuing them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For without cause they hid their net<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16488a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> for me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">without cause they dug a pit<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16488b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> for my life.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Let ruin come on them unawares.</span><br /><span class="text">And let the net that they hid ensnare them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let them fall in it—to their ruin.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then my soul shall rejoice in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">exulting in his deliverance.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>All my bones shall say,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, who is like you?</span></span><br /><span class="text">You deliver the weak</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from those too strong for them,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the weak and needy from those who despoil them.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Malicious witnesses rise up;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they ask me about things I do not know.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>They repay me evil for good;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my soul is forlorn.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But as for me, when they were sick,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I wore sackcloth;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I afflicted myself with fasting.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I prayed with head bowed<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16494c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> on my bosom,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>as though I grieved for a friend or a brother;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I went about as one who laments for a mother,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">bowed down and in mourning.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But at my stumbling they gathered in glee,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they gathered together against me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">ruffians whom I did not know</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">tore at me without ceasing;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>they impiously mocked more and more,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16497d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">gnashing at me with their teeth.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>How long, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, will you look on?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Rescue me from their ravages,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my life from the lions!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then I will thank you in the great congregation;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the mighty throng I will praise you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>For they do not speak peace,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but they conceive deceitful words</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">against those who are quiet in the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>They open wide their mouths against me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they say, “Aha, Aha,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">our eyes have seen it.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>You have seen, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; do not be silent!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O Lord, do not be far from me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Wake up! Bestir yourself for my defense,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for my cause, my God and my Lord!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Vindicate me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, my God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">according to your righteousness,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and do not let them rejoice over me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Do not let them say to themselves,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“Aha, we have our heart’s desire.”</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16506e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> up.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Let all those who rejoice at my calamity</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">be put to shame and confusion;</span></span><br /><span class="text">let those who exalt themselves against me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">be clothed with shame and dishonor.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Let those who desire my vindication</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shout for joy and be glad,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and say evermore,</span></span><br /><span class="text">“Great is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who delights in the welfare of his servant.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and of your praise all day long.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 35:7">Psalm 35:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>a pit, their net</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 35:7">Psalm 35:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>The word <i>pit</i> is transposed from the preceding line</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 35:13">Psalm 35:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>My prayer turned back</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 35:16">Psalm 35:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Heb <i>like the profanest of mockers of a cake</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 35:25">Psalm 35:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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