LEB PSA Chapter 35

A Prayer for Rescue from Enemies

• 35 fight those who fight me.
• 2  and rise to my aid.
• 3 the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
• 4  Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
• 5 the wind, with the angel of Yahweh[fn]
• 6  with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
• 7  without cause they dug it for my life.
• 8 [fn] come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him.
• Let him fall into it in ruin.
• 9  it will rejoice in his salvation.
• 10 is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he
• and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?”
• 11  they ask me concerning what I do not know.
• 12  It is bereavement to my soul.
• 13 was sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting,
• and my prayer[fn]
• 14 [fn] as though he were a friend or as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning.
• 15  smiters whom I did not know gathered against me.
• They tore and did not cease.
• 16 the ungodly of the mockers at feasts,[fn] they gnashed at me with their teeth.
• 17  Restore my life from their ravages,[fn]
• my only life from the young lions.
• 18 to you in the great assembly; among the mighty people I will praise you.
• 19 are wrongfully my enemies[fn] rejoice over me. Nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye.
• 20  but against the quiet ones of the land
• they plan deceitful words.
• 21 [fn] against me. They said, “Aha! Aha!
• Our eyes have seen it.”
• 22  O Lord, do not be far from me.
• 23  for my cause, O my God and my Lord.
• 24  O Yahweh my God,
• and do not let them rejoice over me.
• 25 [fn] “Aha, our desire.” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
• 26  who rejoice at my misfortune.
• Let them put on shame and insult,
• who magnify themselves against me.
• 27  who delight in my vindication;
• and let them say continually, “Yahweh is great,
• who delights in the welfare of his servant.”
• 28  and your praise all day.