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World English Bible

Psalm 35 (WEBP)

[1] Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
[2] Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
[3] Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
[4] Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
[5] Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.
[6] Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
[7] For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
[8] Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
[9] My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
[10] All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
[11] Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
[12] They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
[13] But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
[14] I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
[15] But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
[16] Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
[17] Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
[18] I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
[19] Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
[20] For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
[21] Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
[22] You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
[23] Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
[24] Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
[25] Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
[26] Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
[27] Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
[28] My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 35 (KJVS)

[1] Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: Fight against them that fight against me.
[2] Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for mine help.
[3] Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
[4] Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
[5] Let them be as chaff before the wind: And let the angel of the Lord chase them.
[6] Let their way be dark and slippery: And let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
[7] For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, Which without cause they have digged for my soul.
[8] Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: Into that very destruction let him fall.
[9] And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: It shall rejoice in his salvation.
[10] All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
[11] False witnesses did rise up; They laid to my charge things that I knew not.
[12] They rewarded me evil for good To the spoiling of my soul.
[13] But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
[14] I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
[15] But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
[16] With hypocritical mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
[17] Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
[18] I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
[19] Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
[20] For they speak not peace: But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
[21] Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, And said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
[22] This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
[23] Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
[24] Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
[25] Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
[26] Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
[27] Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
[28] And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness And of thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 35:6 Heb. darkness and slipperiness
Psalm 35:8 Heb. which he knoweth not of
Psalm 35:11a Heb. Witnesses of wrong
Psalm 35:11b Heb. they asked me
Psalm 35:12 Heb. depriving
Psalm 35:13 Or, afflicted
Psalm 35:14 Heb. walked
Psalm 35:15 Heb. halting
Psalm 35:17 Heb. my only one
Psalm 35:18 Heb. strong
Psalm 35:19 Heb. falsely
Psalm 35:25 Heb. Ah, ah, our soul
Psalm 35:27 Heb. my righteousness

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 35 (BYZ)

[1] Τῷ () Δαυιδ. () Δίκασον, κύριε, () τοὺς () ἀδικοῦντάς () με, () πολέμησον () τοὺς () πολεμοῦντάς () με. ()
[2] Ἐπιλαβοῦ () ὅπλου () καὶ () θυρεοῦ () καὶ () ἀνάστηθι () εἰς () βοήθειάν () μου, ()
[3] ἔκχεον () ῥομφαίαν () καὶ () σύγκλεισον () ἐξ () ἐναντίας () τῶν () καταδιωκόντων () με· () εἰπὸν () τῇ () ψυχῇ () μου () Σωτηρία () σου () ἐγώ () εἰμι. ()
[4] Αἰσχυνθήτωσαν () καὶ () ἐντραπήτωσαν () οἱ () ζητοῦντες () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου, () ἀποστραφήτωσαν () εἰς () τὰ () ὀπίσω () καὶ () καταισχυνθήτωσαν () οἱ () λογιζόμενοί () μοι () κακά. ()
[5] Γενηθήτωσαν () ὡσεὶ () χνοῦς κατὰ () πρόσωπον () ἀνέμου, () καὶ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () ἐκθλίβων αὐτούς· ()
[6] γενηθήτω () ἡ () ὁδὸς () αὐτῶν () σκότος () καὶ () ὀλίσθημα, καὶ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () καταδιώκων () αὐτούς· ()
[7] ὅτι () δωρεὰν () ἔκρυψάν () μοι () διαφθορὰν () παγίδος () αὐτῶν, () μάτην () ὠνείδισαν () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου. ()
[8] Ἐλθέτω () αὐτοῖς () παγίς, () ἣν () οὐ () γινώσκουσιν, () καὶ () ἡ () θήρα, () ἣν () ἔκρυψαν, () συλλαβέτω () αὐτούς, () καὶ () ἐν () τῇ () παγίδι () πεσοῦνται () ἐν () αὐτῇ. ()
[9] Ἡ () δὲ () ψυχή () μου () ἀγαλλιάσεται () ἐπὶ () τῷ () κυρίῳ, () τερφθήσεται ἐπὶ () τῷ () σωτηρίῳ () αὐτοῦ· ()
[10] πάντα () τὰ () ὀστᾶ () μου () ἐροῦσιν () Κύριε, () τίς () ὅμοιός () σοι; () Ῥυόμενος () πτωχὸν () ἐκ () χειρὸς () στερεωτέρων () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () πτωχὸν () καὶ () πένητα () ἀπὸ () τῶν () διαρπαζόντων () αὐτόν. ()
[11] Ἀναστάντες () μάρτυρες () ἄδικοι () ἃ () οὐκ () ἐγίνωσκον () ἠρώτων () με· ()
[12] ἀνταπεδίδοσάν () μοι () πονηρὰ () ἀντὶ () καλῶν () καὶ () ἀτεκνίαν τῇ () ψυχῇ () μου. ()
[13] Ἐγὼ () δὲ () ἐν () τῷ () αὐτοὺς () παρενοχλεῖν () μοι () ἐνεδυόμην () σάκκον () καὶ () ἐταπείνουν () ἐν () νηστείᾳ () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου, () καὶ () ἡ () προσευχή () μου () εἰς () κόλπον () μου () ἀποστραφήσεται. ()
[14] Ὡς () πλησίον, () ὡς () ἀδελφὸν () ἡμέτερον, () οὕτως () εὐηρέστουν· () ὡς () πενθῶν () καὶ () σκυθρωπάζων, οὕτως () ἐταπεινούμην. ()
[15] Καὶ () κατ’ () ἐμοῦ () ηὐφράνθησαν () καὶ () συνήχθησαν, () συνήχθησαν () ἐπ’ () ἐμὲ () μάστιγες, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἔγνων, () διεσχίσθησαν καὶ () οὐ () κατενύγησαν. ()
[16] Ἐπείρασάν () με, () ἐξεμυκτήρισάν () με () μυκτηρισμόν, ἔβρυξαν () ἐπ’ () ἐμὲ () τοὺς () ὀδόντας () αὐτῶν. ()
[17] Κύριε, () πότε () ἐπόψῃ; () Ἀποκατάστησον () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου () ἀπὸ () τῆς () κακουργίας αὐτῶν, () ἀπὸ () λεόντων () τὴν () μονογενῆ () μου. ()
[18] Ἐξομολογήσομαί () σοι, () κύριε, () ἐν () ἐκκλησίᾳ () πολλῇ, () ἐν () λαῷ () βαρεῖ () αἰνέσω () σε. ()
[19] Μὴ () ἐπιχαρείησάν μοι () οἱ () ἐχθραίνοντές μοι () ἀδίκως, () οἱ () μισοῦντές () με () δωρεὰν () καὶ () διανεύοντες () ὀφθαλμοῖς. ()
[20] Ὅτι () ἐμοὶ () μὲν () εἰρηνικὰ () ἐλάλουν () καὶ () ἐπ’ () ὀργὴν () δόλους () διελογίζοντο ()
[21] καὶ () ἐπλάτυναν () ἐπ’ () ἐμὲ () τὸ () στόμα () αὐτῶν, () εἶπαν () Εὖγε εὖγε, εἶδαν () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοὶ () ἡμῶν. ()
[22] Εἶδες, () κύριε, () μὴ () παρασιωπήσῃς, κύριε, () μὴ () ἀποστῇς () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ· ()
[23] ἐξεγέρθητι, () κύριε, () καὶ () πρόσχες () τῇ () κρίσει () μου, () ὁ () θεός () μου () καὶ () ὁ () κύριός () μου, () εἰς () τὴν () δίκην () μου. ()
[24] Κρῖνόν () με () κατὰ () τὴν () δικαιοσύνην () σου, () κύριε () ὁ () θεός () μου, () καὶ () μὴ () ἐπιχαρείησάν μοι· ()
[25] μὴ () εἴπαισαν () ἐν () καρδίαις () αὐτῶν () Εὖγε εὖγε τῇ () ψυχῇ () ἡμῶν· () μηδὲ () εἴπαισαν () Κατεπίομεν () αὐτόν. ()
[26] Αἰσχυνθείησαν () καὶ () ἐντραπείησαν () ἅμα () οἱ () ἐπιχαίροντες τοῖς () κακοῖς () μου, () ἐνδυσάσθωσαν () αἰσχύνην () καὶ () ἐντροπὴν () οἱ () μεγαλορρημονοῦντες ἐπ’ () ἐμέ. ()
[27] Ἀγαλλιάσαιντο () καὶ () εὐφρανθείησαν () οἱ () θέλοντες () τὴν () δικαιοσύνην () μου () καὶ () εἰπάτωσαν () διὰ () παντός () Μεγαλυνθήτω () ὁ () κύριος, () οἱ () θέλοντες () τὴν () εἰρήνην () τοῦ () δούλου () αὐτοῦ. ()
[28] Καὶ () ἡ () γλῶσσά () μου () μελετήσει () τὴν () δικαιοσύνην () σου, () ὅλην () τὴν () ἡμέραν () τὸν () ἔπαινόν () σου. ()

Psalm 35:1 Originally verse 34:1.
Psalm 35:2 Originally verse 34:2.
Psalm 35:3 Originally verse 34:3.
Psalm 35:4 Originally verse 34:4.
Psalm 35:5 Originally verse 34:5.
Psalm 35:6 Originally verse 34:6.
Psalm 35:7 Originally verse 34:7.
Psalm 35:8 Originally verse 34:8.
Psalm 35:9 Originally verse 34:9.
Psalm 35:10 Originally verse 34:10.
Psalm 35:11 Originally verse 34:11.
Psalm 35:12 Originally verse 34:12.
Psalm 35:13 Originally verse 34:13.
Psalm 35:14 Originally verse 34:14.
Psalm 35:15 Originally verse 34:15.
Psalm 35:16 Originally verse 34:16.
Psalm 35:17 Originally verse 34:17.
Psalm 35:18 Originally verse 34:18.
Psalm 35:19 Originally verse 34:19.
Psalm 35:20 Originally verse 34:20.
Psalm 35:21 Originally verse 34:21.
Psalm 35:22 Originally verse 34:22.
Psalm 35:23 Originally verse 34:23.
Psalm 35:24 Originally verse 34:24.
Psalm 35:25 Originally verse 34:25.
Psalm 35:26 Originally verse 34:26.
Psalm 35:27 Originally verse 34:27.
Psalm 35:28 Originally verse 34:28.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.