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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>[A Psalm] of David.<p></div><div class="po3">Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me;</div><div class="po2">Fight against them that fight against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Take hold of shield and buckler,</div><div class="po2">And rise up to my help.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me;</div><div class="po2">Say unto my soul: ‘I am Thy salvation.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul;</div><div class="po2">Let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Let them be as chaff before the wind,</div><div class="po2">The angel of the LORD thrusting them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let their way be dark and slippery,</div><div class="po2">The angel of the LORD pursuing them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net,</div><div class="po2">Without cause have they digged for my soul.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let destruction come upon him unawares;</div><div class="po2">And let his net that he hath hid catch himself;</div><div class="po2">With destruction let him fall therein.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD;</div><div class="po2">It shall rejoice in His salvation.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>All my bones shall say: ‘LORD, who is like unto Thee,</div><div class="po2">Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,</div><div class="po2">Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Unrighteous witnesses rise up;</div><div class="po2">They ask me of things that I know not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They repay me evil for good;</div><div class="po2">Bereavement is come to my soul.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth,</div><div class="po2">I afflicted my soul with fasting;</div><div class="po2">And my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother;</div><div class="po2">I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together;</div><div class="po2">The abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not;</div><div class="po2">They tear me, and cease not;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>With the profanest mockeries of backbiting</div><div class="po2">They gnash at me with their teeth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?</div><div class="po2">Rescue my soul from their destructions,</div><div class="po2">Mine only one from the lions.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation;</div><div class="po2">I will praise Thee among a numerous people.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me;</div><div class="po2">Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For they speak not peace;</div><div class="po2">But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yea, they open their mouth wide against me;</div><div class="po2">They say: ‘Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thou hast seen, O LORD; keep not silence;</div><div class="po2">O Lord, be not far from me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment,</div><div class="po2">Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Judge me, O LORD my God, according to Thy righteousness;</div><div class="po2">And let them not rejoice over me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let them not say in their heart: ‘Aha, we have our desire’;</div><div class="po2">Let them not say: ‘We have swallowed him up.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Let them be ashamed and abashed together that rejoice at my hurt;</div><div class="po2">Let them be clothed with shame and confusion that magnify themselves against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that delight in my righteousness;</div><div class="po2">Yea, let them say continually: ‘Magnified be the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Who delighteth in the peace of His servant.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And my tongue shall speak of Thy righteousness,</div><div class="po2">And of Thy praise all the day.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a 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