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PSALMS
35.26
- Say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'
- 4Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul;
- Let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.
- 5Let them be as chaff before the wind,
- The angel of the Lord thrusting them.
- 6Let their way be dark and slippery,
- The angel of the Lord pursuing them.
- 7For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net,
- Without cause have they digged for my soul.
- 8Let destruction come upon him unawares;
- And let his net that he hath hid catch himself;
- With destruction let him fall therein.
- 9And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord;
- It shall rejoice in His salvation.
- 10All my bones shall say: 'Lord, who is like unto Thee,
- Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
- Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?'
- 11Unrighteous witnesses rise up;
- They ask me of things that I know not.
- 12They repay me evil for good;
- Bereavement is come to my soul.
- 13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth,
- I afflicted my soul with fasting;
- And my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
- 14I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother;
- I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- 15But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together;
- The abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not;
- They tear me, and cease not;
- 16With the profanest mockeries of backbiting
- They gnash at me with their teeth.
- 17Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?
- Rescue my soul from their destructions,
- Mine only one from the lions.
- 18I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation;
- I will praise Thee among a numerous people.
- 19Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me;
- Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- 20For they speak not peace;
- But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- 21Yea, they open their mouth wide against me;
- They say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'
- 22Thou hast seen, O Lord; keep not silence;
- O Lord, be not far from me.
- 23Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment,
- Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- 24Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Thy righteousness;
- And let them not rejoice over me.
- 25Let them not say in their heart: 'Aha, we have our desire';
- Let them not say: 'We have swallowed him up.'
- 26Let them be ashamed and abashed together that rejoice at my hurt;
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