035:003 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation." 035:004 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded. 035:005 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on. 035:006 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them. 035:007 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. 035:008 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. 035:009 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation. 035:010 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?" 035:011 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about. 035:012 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. 035:013 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. 035:014 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother. 035:015 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. 035:016 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. 035:017 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. 035:018 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people. 035:019 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. 035:020 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. 035:021 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!" 035:022 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me. 035:023 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! 035:024 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me. 035:025 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!" 035:026 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. 035:027 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause.