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Psalm 35

Psalm

A psalm written by David when he pretended to be insane in front of King Abimelech so that the king would send him away

35 I will always thank Yahweh;

I will constantly praise him.

2 I will praise Yahweh for what he has done.

All those who are oppressed should listen to me and rejoice.

3 Join with me in telling others that Yahweh is great!

You and I should together proclaim how glorious he is!

4 I prayed to Yahweh, and he answered my prayer;

he rescued me from all those who caused me to be afraid.

5 Those who trust that he will help them will be joyful;

they will never have to look down in disgrace.

6 I was miserable, but I called out to Yahweh, and he heard me.

He rescued me from all my troubles.

7 An angel from Yahweh guards those who have an awesome respect for him,

and the angel rescues them.

8 Try for yourself, and you will experience that Yahweh is good to you!

How fortunate are those who trust him to protect them.

9 All you who belong to him, have an awesome respect for him!

Those who do that will always have the things that they need.

10 Lions are usually very strong, but sometimes even young lions are hungry and become weak.

However, those who trust in Yahweh will have everything that they need.

11 You who are my students, come and listen to me,

and I will teach you how to have an awesome respect for Yahweh.

12 If any of you wants to enjoy life

and have a good long life,

13 do not speak what is evil!

Do not tell lies!

14 Refuse to do evil; instead, do what is good!

Always try hard to enable people to live peacefully with each other!

15 Yahweh carefully watches over those who act righteously;

he always responds to them when they call to him for help.

16 But Yahweh works against those who do what is evil.

After they die, people here on earth will forget them completely.

17 Yahweh hears righteous people when they call out to him;

he rescues them from all their troubles.

18 Yahweh is always ready to help those who are discouraged;

he rescues those who have no hope for anything good.

19 Righteous people may have many troubles,

but Yahweh rescues them from all those troubles.

20 Yahweh protects them from being harmed;

when their enemies attack them,

they will not break any bones of those righteous people.

21 Disasters will kill the wicked people,

and Yahweh will punish those who oppose righteous people.

22 Yahweh will save those who serve him.

He will not condemn those who trust in him.

Psalm

A psalm written by David

35 Yahweh, fight against those who fight against me!

Fight with my enemies when they fight me!

2 Be like a shield to protect me

and come to help me!

3 Lift up your spear and throw it at those who pursue me!

Promise me that you will enable me to defeat my enemies.

4 Those who are trying to kill me—make others disgrace and dishonor them.

Push back and confuse those who are planning to do evil things to me.

5 Send your angel to pursue them

and to make them disappear like chaff that the wind blows away.

6 Cause the path on which they run to be dark and slippery

as your angel pursues them!

7 Although I did not do anything wrong to them,

they dug a deep pit for me to fall into;

they hid a net in which they would catch me.

8 Cause them to suddenly experience disaster!

Cause their own nets to trap them.

Cause them to fall into the pits that they have dug for me, and make them die in them!

9 Then I will rejoice in what you, Yahweh, have done for me;

I will be glad that you have rescued me.

10 With my whole inner being I will say,

“There is no one like Yahweh!

No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people.

No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”

11 People who tell lies stand in court

and accuse me of doing things that I do not know anything about.

12 In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me,

with the result that I feel that I am alone.

13 When they were ill, I showed that I was sad.

I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed for them.

14 I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed

as though it were a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.

15 But when I had troubles, they were all happy about it.

They unexpectedly gathered around to make fun of me.

Strangers kept striking me;

they would not stop.

16 People who respect no one ridiculed me

and snarled at me.

17 Lord, how long will you only watch them doing this?

Rescue me from their attacks;

Save me from being killed by these men who are attacking me

as lions attack other animals!

18 Then, when many of your people gather,

I will praise you,

and I will thank you in front of all of them.

19 Do not allow my enemies, who tell lies about me, defeat me

and then rejoice about it!

Do not allow those who hate me when there is no reason to hate me

to laugh about how I suffer!

20 They do not speak peacefully to people;

instead, they look for ways to tell lies about people in our land who do no harm to anyone.

21 They shout at me in order to accuse me;

they say, “We saw the wrong things that you did!”

22 Yahweh, you have seen these things, so do not be silent!

Do not stay far from me!

23 Arise, my God, plead my case in court,

and successfully defend me!

24 Yahweh, my God, because you are righteous,

prove that I am innocent

so that my enemies will not be able to gloat that I was judged to be guilty.

25 Do not allow them to be able to say to themselves,

“Yes, we have gotten rid of him just like we desired!”

26 Cause those who rejoice about my misfortunes

to be completely confused and disgraced;

cause those who boast that they are much greater than I am

to be disgraced and dishonored!

27 But cause those who desire that you declare me innocent

to be happy and shout joyfully;

cause them to always say, “Yahweh is great!

He is delighted to cause things to go well for those who serve him.”

28 Then I will proclaim that you act in the right way,

and I will praise you all the time.