1 | Plead
my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight
against me. |
2 | Take hold
of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. |
3 | Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against
them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. |
4 | Let 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. |
5 | Let
them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. |
6 | Let their way be dark and
slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. |
7 | For without cause have they hid for me
their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. |
8 | Let destruction come upon him at
unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very
destruction let him fall. |
9 |
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation. |
10 | All 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? |
11 | False
witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. |
12 | They rewarded me evil for good
to the spoiling of my soul. |
13
| But 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. |
14 | I behaved myself as
though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that
mourneth for his mother. |
15 |
But 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: |
16
| With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their
teeth. |
17 | Lord, how long
wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the
lions. |
18 | I will give
thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much
people. |
19 | Let not them
that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with
the eye that hate me without a cause.
John 15:25
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20 | For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful
matters against them that are quiet in the land. |
21 | Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. |
22 | This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord,
be not far from me. |
23 |
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my
Lord. |
24 | Judge me, O
LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over
me. |
25 | Let them not say
in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed
him up. |
26 | Let 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. |
27 | Let 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. |
28 | And my
tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. |