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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 35 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/35.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/35-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Psalm 35</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/34.htm" title="Psalm 34">◄</a> Psalm 35 <a href="../psalms/36.htm" title="Psalm 36">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/35-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Contend with My Opponents, O LORD<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:1)</font> <i>A Psalm</i> of David. Judge thou, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:2)</font> Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:3)</font> Bring forth a sword, and stop <i>the way</i> against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:4)</font> Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:5)</font> Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:6)</font> Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:7)</font> For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:8)</font> Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:9)</font> But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:10)</font> All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:11)</font> Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:12)</font> They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:13)</font> But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my <i>own</i> bosom.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:14)</font> I behaved agreeably towards them as <i>if it had been</i> our neighbour <i>or</i> brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:15)</font> Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew <i>it</i> not: they were scattered, but repented not.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:16)</font> They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:17)</font> O Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, mine only-begotten one from the lions.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:18)</font> I will give thanks to thee even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise thee.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:19)</font> Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:20)</font> For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in <i>their</i> anger.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:21)</font> And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:22)</font> Thou hast seen <i>it</i>, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not <i>thyself</i> from me.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:23)</font> Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, <i>even</i> to my cause, my God and my Lord.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:24)</font> Judge me, O Lord, according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:25)</font> Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, <i>it is pleasing</i> to our soul: neither let them say, We have devoured him.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:26)</font> Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:27)</font> Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad: and let them say continually, The Lord be magnified, who desire the peace of his servant.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><font color=blue>(34:28)</font> And my tongue shall meditate on thy righteousness, <i>and</i> on thy praise all the day.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/34.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 34"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 34" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/36.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 36"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 36" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>