Psalm 35, side by side

¹Contend, the LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

¹Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

³Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

³Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

⁴Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

⁴Let 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.

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, the LORD’s angel pursuing them.

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

⁷For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁷For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

⁸Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

⁸Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

⁹My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

⁹And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, “the LORD, 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?”

¹⁰All 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?

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

¹¹False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

¹²They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

¹³But 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.

¹⁴I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁴I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

¹⁵But 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.

¹⁵But 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:

¹⁶Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹⁶With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

¹⁹Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

²⁰For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

²⁰For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

²¹Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

²¹Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

²²You have seen it, the LORD. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

²²This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

²³Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

²⁴Vindicate me, the LORD my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

²⁴Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Don’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!”

²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

²⁶Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

²⁶Let 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.

²⁷Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

²⁷Let 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.

²⁸My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

²⁸And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.