Psalms 35
1 Of David. Contend, Lord, with those who contend with me, do battle with those who do battle with me.
to/for David to contend [emph?] LORD with opponent my to fight with to fight me
2 Grasp shield and buckler, and rise up as my help.
to strengthen: hold shield and shield and to arise: rise [emph?] in/on/with help my
3 Draw spear and battle-axe, confront those who pursue me. Assure me that you will help me.
and to empty spear and to shut to/for to encounter: toward to pursue me to say to/for soul my salvation your I
4 Dishonor and shame be on those who are seeking my life! Defeat and confusion on those who are planning my hurt!
be ashamed and be humiliated to seek soul: life my to turn back and be ashamed to devise: devise distress: evil my
5 As chaff before wind may they be, with the Lord’s angel pursuing them.
to be like/as chaff to/for face: before spirit: breath and messenger: angel LORD to thrust
6 Slippery and dark be their way, with his angel thrusting them on.
to be way: conduct their darkness and smoothness and messenger: angel LORD to pursue them
7 For they wantonly hid their net for me, and dug a pit to destroy me.
for for nothing to hide to/for me pit: grave net their for nothing to search to/for soul: life my
8 Upon them may ruin come unawares; may the net which they hid catch themselves, and into the pit may they fall.
to come (in): come him devastation not to know and net his which to hide to capture him in/on/with devastation to fall: fall in/on/with her
9 Then I will exult in the Lord, and be joyful because of his help;
and soul my to rejoice in/on/with LORD to rejoice in/on/with salvation his
10 and all my being will say, “Who, O Lord, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those who despoil them?”
all bone my to say LORD who? like you to rescue afflicted from strong from him and afflicted and needy from to plunder him
11 Violent witnesses rise, and ask of me things that I know not.
to arise: rise [emph?] witness violence which not to know to ask me
12 Evil for good they requite me, leaving me inwardly comfortless.
to complete me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare bereavement to/for soul my
13 But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
and I in/on/with be weak: ill they clothing my sackcloth to afflict in/on/with fast soul: myself my and prayer my upon bosom: embrace my to return: return
14 as if for my friend or my brother. I went about bowed and in mourning, as one who laments his mother.
like/as neighbor like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to go: walk like/as mourning mother be dark to bow
15 When I stumbled, they gleefully gathered, strangers gathered around me, and tore at me without ceasing,
and in/on/with stumbling my to rejoice and to gather to gather upon me smitten and not to know to tear and not to silence: stationary
16 impiously mocking and mocking, bearing their teeth at me.
in/on/with profane mocking bun to grind upon me tooth their
17 How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions.
Lord like/as what? to see: see to return: rescue [emph?] soul: myself my from ravage their from lion only my
18 I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people.
to give thanks you in/on/with assembly many in/on/with people mighty to boast: praise you
19 Suffer not those to rejoice over me who are falsely my foes, suffer not those who without cause abhor me to wink with the eye.
not to rejoice to/for me enemy my deception to hate me for nothing to wink eye
20 For it is not peace that they speak of those who are quiet in the land; but treacherous charges they plot.
for not peace to speak: speak and upon restful land: country/planet word deceit to devise: design [emph?]
21 With wide open mouths they shout, “Hurrah! Hurrah! With our own eyes we saw it.”
and to enlarge upon me lip their to say Aha! Aha! to see: see eye our
22 But you have seen, too, O Lord, keep not silence, O Lord, be not far from me.
to see: see LORD not be quiet Lord not to remove from me
23 Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my Lord, for my cause.
to rouse [emph?] and to awake [emph?] to/for justice: judgement my God my and Lord to/for strife my
24 You are just, Lord: win for me justice, let them not rejoice over me,
to judge me like/as righteousness your LORD God my and not to rejoice to/for me
25 inwardly saying, “Hurrah! The desire of our hearts at last! Now we have swallowed him up.”
not to say in/on/with heart their Aha! soul our not to say to swallow up him
26 Shame and confusion together on those who rejoice at my hurt! Clothed with shame and dishonor be those who are haughty to me!
be ashamed and be ashamed together glad distress: harm my to clothe shame and shame [the] to magnify upon me
27 Let such as delight in my cause ring out their gladness, and say evermore, “Great is the Lord whose delight is the well-being of his servant.”
to sing and to rejoice delighting righteousness my and to say continually to magnify LORD [the] delighting peace: well-being servant/slave his
28 Then my tongue will tell of your justice, and all the day long of your praise.
and tongue my to mutter righteousness your all [the] day praise your
