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Pleade thou my cause, O Lorde, with them that striue with me: fight thou 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>Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For without cause they haue hid the pit & their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>All my bones shall say, Lorde, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thou hast seene it, O Lorde: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen 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>Iudge me, O Lorde my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Let them bee confounded, & put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<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>