Great Is the Lord
Of David.
1Contend, O Lord, with those who ycontend with me;
zfight against those who fight against me!
2Take hold of ashield and buckler
and rise for my help!
3Draw the spear and javelin1
against my pursuers!
Say to my soul,
“I am your salvation!”
4bLet them be cput to shame and dishonor
who seek after my life!
Let them be dturned back and disappointed
who devise evil against me!
5Let them be like echaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
6Let their way be dark and fslippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
7For gwithout cause hthey hid their net for me;
without cause they dug ia pit for my life.2
8Let jdestruction come upon him kwhen he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his destruction!
9Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
lexulting in his salvation.
10All my mbones shall say,
“O Lord, nwho is like you,
delivering the poor
from him who is too strong for him,
the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
11oMalicious3 witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.
12pThey repay me evil for good;
my soul is bereft.4
13But I, qwhen they were sick—
I rwore sackcloth;
I safflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed twith head bowed5 on my chest.
14I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I ubowed down in mourning.
15But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me;
vwretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
16like profane mockers at a feast,6
they wgnash at me with their teeth.
17How long, O Lord, will you xlook on?
Rescue me from their destruction,
ymy precious life from the lions!
18I will thank you in zthe great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.
19aLet not those rejoice over me
who are bwrongfully my foes,
and let not those cwink the eye
20For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land
they devise words of deceit.
21They fopen wide their mouths against me;
they say, g“Aha, Aha!
Our eyes have seen it!”
22hYou have seen, O Lord; ibe not silent!
O Lord, jbe not far from me!
23Awake and krouse yourself for lmy vindication,
for my cause, my God and my Lord!
24mVindicate me, O Lord, my God,
according to your righteousness,
and nlet them not rejoice over me!
25Let them not say in their hearts,
o“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, p“We have swallowed him up.”
26Let them be qput to shame and disappointed altogether
who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be rclothed with shame and dishonor
who smagnify themselves against me!
27Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
tand say evermore,
u“Great is the Lord,
who vdelights in the welfare of his servant!”
28Then my wtongue shall tell of your righteousness
and of your praise all the day long.
Footnotes
- 1 35:3 Or and close the way
- 2 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life
- 3 35:11 Or Violent
- 4 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul
- 5 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back
- 6 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
The Prophesied Kingdom — Part One
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