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Psalms 35

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1By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. ✦ 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. ✦ 3Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your 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. ✦ 5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on. ✦ 6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them. ✦ 7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. ✦ 8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. ✦ 9My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation. ✦ 10All 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?” ✦ 11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about. ✦ 12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving 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. ✦ 14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns 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. ✦ 16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. ✦ 17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. ✦ 18I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many 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. ✦ 20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. ✦ 21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!” ✦ 22You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me. ✦ 23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! ✦ 24Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat 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!” ✦ 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. ✦ 27Let 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!” ✦ 28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 38 ·10Ps 22 ·9Ps 69 ·7Ps 71 ·7Ps 35 ·6Ps 7 ·6Ps 40 ·5Matt 27 ·5

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 35 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 35David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 35Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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