PSALM 35-Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

PSALM 35

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

Psalm 35:1 Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

Psalm 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!

Psalm 35:3 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your deliverance!”

Psalm 35:4 Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!

Psalm 35:5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on!

Psalm 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit  for my life.

Psalm 35:8 Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!

Psalm 35:9 Then my soul shall rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his deliverance.

Psalm 35:10 All my bones shall say, “O LORD, who is like you, you who deliver the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?”

Psalm 35:11 Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.

Psalm 35:12 They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

Psalm 35:13 But I, when they were sick I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed  on my bosom,

Psalm 35:14 as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.

Psalm 35:15 But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I did not know slandered me without ceasing;

Psalm 35:16 they impiously mocked more and more,  gnashing at me with their teeth.

Psalm 35:17 How long, O LORD, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

Psalm 35:18 Then I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

Psalm 35:19 Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

Psalm 35:20 For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.

Psalm 35:21 They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!”

Psalm 35:22 You have seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!

Psalm 35:23 Bestir yourself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

Psalm 35:24 Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me!

Psalm 35:25 Let them not say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 35:26 Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

Psalm 35:27 Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”

Psalm 35:28 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.