Psalms 35

Verse 1

WEB By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

KJV A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

TSK A. M. 2942. B.C. 1062. Plead: ps 43:1, ps 119:154, 1sa 24:15, pr 22:23, pr 23:11, jer 51:36, la 3:58, mic 7:9; fight: ex 14:25, jos 10:42, ne 4:20, ac 5:39, ac 23:9

Verse 2

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

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

TSK Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.: ps 7:12,13, ex 15:3, de 32:41,42, isa 13:5, isa 42:13

Verse 3

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

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

TSK stop: ps 27:2, ps 76:10, 1sa 23:26,27, job 1:10, isa 8:9,10, isa 10:12, ac 4:28; say: ps 51:12, ps 62:7, ps 91:16, ge 49:18, isa 12:2, lu 2:30

Verse 4

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

KJV 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.

TSK confounded: ps 35:26, ps 31:17,18, ps 40:14,15, ps 70:2,3, ps 71:24; that: ps 38:12, 1sa 23:23, 1ki 19:10, eze 13:19, mt 27:1; turned: ps 129:5, isa 37:29, jer 46:5, joh 18:6

Verse 5

WEB Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

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

TSK as chaff: ps 1:4, ps 83:13-17, job 21:18, isa 17:13, isa 29:5, ho 13:3; and: ex 14:19, isa 37:36, ac 12:23, heb 11:28

Verse 6

WEB Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

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

TSK their: ps 73:18, pr 4:19, jer 13:16, jer 23:12

Verse 7

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

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

TSK without: ps 7:3-5, ps 25:3, ps 64:4, joh 15:25; hid: ps 9:15, ps 119:85, ps 140:5, job 18:8

Verse 8

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

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

TSK Let destruction: ps 64:7, ps 73:18-20, pr 29:1, lu 21:34, 1th 5:3; net: ps 7:15,16, ps 57:6, ps 141:9,10, pr 5:22; into: 1sa 18:17, 1sa 31:2-4, 2sa 17:2-4,23, 2sa 18:14,15, es 7:10, mt 27:3-5

Verse 9

WEB My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

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

TSK And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.: ps 13:5, ps 21:1, ps 33:21, ps 48:11, ps 58:10,11, ps 68:1-3, 1sa 2:1, isa 61:10, hab 3:18, lu 1:46,47, ga 5:22, php 3:1-3

Verse 10

WEB All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, 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?”

KJV 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?

TSK All: ps 22:14, ps 32:3, ps 34:20, ps 38:3, ps 51:8, ps 102:3, job 33:19-25; who: ps 71:19, ps 86:8, ps 89:6-8, ex 15:11, isa 40:18,25, jer 10:7; which: ps 10:14, ps 22:24, ps 34:6, ps 69:33, ps 102:17-20, ps 109:31, ps 140:12, job 5:15,16, pr 22:22,23; too: ps 18:17

Verse 11

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

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

TSK False witnesses: ps 27:12, 1sa 24:9, 1sa 25:10, mt 26:59,60, ac 6:13, ac 24:5,6,12,13

Verse 12

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

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

TSK They: ps 38:20, ps 109:3-5, 1sa 19:4,5,15, 1sa 22:13,14, pr 17:13, jer 18:20, joh 10:32; spoiling: 1sa 20:31-33, lu 23:21-23

Verse 13

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

KJV 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.

TSK when: ps 69:10,11, job 30:25, mt 5:44, ro 12:14,15; humbled: le 16:29,31, 1ki 21:27-29, isa 58:3,5, mt 9:14,15; my prayer: mt 10:13, lu 10:6

Verse 14

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

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

TSK I bowed: 2sa 1:11,12,17-27, lu 19:41,42; as one: ge 24:67

Verse 15

WEB But 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.

KJV 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:

TSK in mine: ps 35:25,26, ps 41:8, ps 71:10,11, job 31:29, pr 17:5, pr 24:17,18; adversity: ps 38:17, jer 20:10, 1co 13:6; the abjects: ps 22:16, ps 69:12, job 30:1-12, mt 27:27-30,39-44, mr 14:65, ac 17:5; I knew: ps 35:8; they: ps 7:2, ps 57:4, job 16:9

Verse 16

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

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

TSK hypocritical: 1sa 20:24-42, isa 1:14,15, joh 18:28, 1co 5:8; gnashed: ps 37:12, job 16:9, la 2:16, ac 7:54

Verse 17

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

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

TSK how: ps 6:3, ps 13:1,2, ps 74:9,10, ps 89:46, ps 94:3,4; look: ps 10:14, hab 1:13; rescue: ps 22:20,21, ps 57:4, ps 69:14,15, ps 142:6,7

Verse 18

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

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

TSK give: ps 22:22-25,31, ps 40:9,10, ps 69:30-34, ps 111:1, ps 116:14,18, heb 2:12; praise: ps 67:1-4, ps 117:1,2, ps 138:4,5, ro 15:9; much: isa 25:3

Verse 19

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

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

TSK Let: ps 35:15, ps 13:4, ps 25:2, ps 38:16, joh 16:20-22, re 11:7-10; wrongfully: ps 38:19; wink: job 15:12, pr 6:13, pr 10:10; that hate: ps 69:4, ps 109:3, ps 119:161, 1sa 24:11,12, la 3:52, joh 15:25

Verse 20

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

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

TSK For: ps 120:5-7; but: ps 31:13, ps 36:3,4, ps 38:12, ps 52:2, ps 64:4-6, ps 140:2-5, jer 11:19, da 6:5, mt 26:4, ac 23:15, ac 25:3; quiet: mt 12:19,24, 1pe 2:22,23

Verse 21

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

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

TSK Yea: ps 22:13, isa 9:12, lu 11:53,54; Aha: ps 40:15, ps 54:7, ps 70:3

Verse 22

WEB You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

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

TSK This: ex 3:7, ac 7:34; keep: ps 28:1, ps 39:12, ps 50:21, ps 83:1; be: ps 10:1, ps 22:11,19, ps 38:21, ps 71:12, isa 65:6

Verse 23

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

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

TSK Stir: ps 7:6, ps 44:23, ps 80:2, isa 51:9; my God: ps 89:26, ps 142:5, joh 20:28

Verse 24

WEB Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

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

TSK Judge: ps 7:8, ps 18:20-24, ps 26:1, ps 43:1, 2th 1:6, 1pe 2:22; and let: ps 35:19, job 20:5

Verse 25

WEB Don’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!”

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

TSK say: ps 27:12, ps 28:3, ps 70:3, ps 74:8, job 1:5, mr 2:6,8; so: ps 140:8, ex 15:9, mt 27:43; We have: ps 56:1,2, ps 57:3, ps 124:3, 2sa 20:19, la 2:16, 1co 15:54

Verse 26

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

KJV 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.

TSK ashamed: ps 35:4, ps 40:14,15, ps 71:13, ps 129:5, ps 132:18, isa 41:11, isa 65:13-15; clothed: ps 109:28,29, ps 132:18, job 8:22, 1pe 5:5; magnify: ps 38:16, ps 55:12, job 19:5, jer 48:26, da 11:36

Verse 27

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

KJV 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.

TSK shout: ps 40:16, ps 68:3, ps 132:9,16, ps 142:7, isa 66:10,11, joh 16:22, ro 12:15, 1co 12:26; righteous cause: pr 8:18; say: ps 70:4; which: ps 149:4, jer 32:40,41, zep 3:14,17

Verse 28

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

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

TSK And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.: ps 34:1, ps 50:15, ps 51:14,15, ps 71:24, ps 104:33,34, ps 145:1,2,5,21