1 A psalm of David. Oppose my opponents, Lord; fight those who are fighting against me. 2 Put your armor on, and pick up your shield. Get ready, come and help me. 3 Draw your spear and your javelin, confront those who are chasing me. Tell me, “I am your salvation!” 4 Shame them! Humiliate those who are trying to kill me! Turn them back! Disgrace those who are planning to hurt me! 5 Let them be like chaff blown by the wind; let the angel of the Lord drive them away. 6 May their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord chasing them down. 7 For no reason they set a net to catch me; for no reason they dug a pit to trap me. 8 Let disaster come on them suddenly; let the net they set catch them instead; let the pit they dug trap them instead. 9 Then I will be glad in the Lord; I will be happy in his salvation. 10 Every part of me will say, Who can compare to you, Lord? You rescue the weak from the strong; the poor and needy from robbers. 11 Hostile witnesses stand up to testify against me, accusing me of crimes I don't know anything about. 12 They pay me back with evil instead of good. I feel like giving up. 13 But when they were sick, I put on clothes of sackcloth in sympathy. I denied myself through fasting. May my prayer for them return to bless me too. 14 I was upset for them, as if they were my own friends or family; I bowed down in grief as if I was mourning my own mother. 15 But when I was in trouble, they gathered around and laughed at me. Even strangers I don't know attacked me, constantly tearing me apart. 16 Like irreligious people mocking a cripple they mock me and call me names, gnashing their teeth at me. 17 How long, Lord, will you sit by and just watch? Save me from their vicious attacks; defend the only life I have from these lions. 18 Then I will thank you in front of the whole congregation and praise you in front of all the people. 19 Don't let my enemies take pleasure in my troubles, those people who hate me and tell lies about me, gloating over me for no reason. 20 They are not looking for peace; they invent malicious and deceptive schemes against innocent peace-loving people. 21 They open their mouths wide to make accusations against me, saying, “Look! Look! We saw it with our own eyes!” 22 But Lord, you've seen all this! Say something! Don't give up on me, Lord! 23 Wake up! Get up and defend me, my Lord and my God! Take up my case and make sure justice is done! 24 Vindicate me, my Lord and my God, because you are just and right. Don't let them gloat over me. 25 Don't let them say to themselves, “Look! We got what we wanted!” Don't let them say, “We completely destroyed him!” 26 Make them totally ashamed, all those who are happy for the trouble I'm in. Let those who are celebrating over me be covered with shame and dishonor. 27 Instead let those who are pleased I've been vindicated celebrate and shout for joy. Let them always say, “How great is the Lord! He is happy when his servants live in peace and have what they need.” 28 I will tell others about your character of truth and right, praising you all day long!
Psalm 35 Free Bible Version
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 43:1; Jeremiah 51:36; Psalm 119:154; Isaiah 49:25; Proverbs 23:11
- 2 Psalm 91:4; Exodus 15:3; Isaiah 42:13; Deuteronomy 32:41–42; Isaiah 13:5
- 3 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 27:2; Psalm 51:12; Psalm 91:16; Isaiah 8:9–10
- 4 Psalm 70:2–3; Jeremiah 46:5; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 38:12; Psalm 31:17–18
- 5 Job 21:18; Isaiah 29:5; Hebrews 11:28; Hosea 13:3; Exodus 14:19
- 6 Jeremiah 23:12; Psalm 73:18; Proverbs 4:19; Jeremiah 13:16
- 7 John 15:25; Psalm 140:5; Psalm 9:15; Psalm 69:4; Job 18:8
- 8 Psalm 141:9–10; Luke 21:34; Psalm 9:15; Proverbs 5:22; Psalm 57:6
- 9 Isaiah 61:10; Luke 1:46–47; Psalm 48:11; Psalm 58:10–11; Psalm 9:14
- 10 Psalm 140:12; Psalm 109:31; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 86:8; Psalm 71:19
- 11 Psalm 27:12; Matthew 26:59–60; Acts 6:13; 1 Samuel 24:9; Acts 24:12–13
- 12 John 10:32; Jeremiah 18:20; Psalm 38:20; Luke 23:21–23; Proverbs 17:13
- 13 Psalm 69:10–11; Job 30:25; Matthew 5:44; Isaiah 58:5; Leviticus 16:31
- 14 Luke 19:41–42; 2 Samuel 1:11–12; Genesis 24:67; 2 Samuel 1:17–27; Psalm 38:6
- 15 Jeremiah 20:10; Mark 14:65; Matthew 27:27–30; Psalm 7:2; Matthew 27:39–44
- 16 Lamentations 2:16; Job 16:9; Psalm 37:12; John 18:28; Acts 7:54
- 17 Habakkuk 1:13; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 22:20–21; Psalm 89:46; Psalm 94:3–4
- 18 Hebrews 2:12; Psalm 22:22–25; Psalm 116:18; Isaiah 25:3; Psalm 116:14
- 19 Psalm 69:4; John 15:25; Proverbs 6:13; Psalm 13:4; Psalm 38:19
- 20 Matthew 26:4; 1 Peter 2:22–23; Jeremiah 11:19; Psalm 120:5–7; Psalm 38:12
- 21 Psalm 40:15; Luke 11:53–54; Psalm 22:13; Psalm 70:3; Psalm 54:7
- 22 Exodus 3:7; Psalm 10:1; Psalm 28:1; Psalm 38:21; Isaiah 65:6
- 23 Psalm 7:6; Psalm 44:23; Psalm 89:26; Psalm 59:4; John 20:28
- 24 Psalm 43:1; Psalm 26:1; Psalm 7:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Psalm 35:19
- 25 Lamentations 2:16; Psalm 124:3; Matthew 27:43; Job 1:5; Psalm 140:8
- 26 Psalm 38:16; Job 8:22; Psalm 132:18; Job 19:5; Isaiah 41:11
- 27 Jeremiah 32:40–41; Psalm 149:4; Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 40:16; Proverbs 8:18
- 28 Psalm 145:21; Psalm 71:24; Psalm 145:5; Psalm 51:14–15; Psalm 50:15
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Because there was there a sacrifice after the order of Aaron, and afterwards He of His Own Body and Blood appointed a sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek; He changed then His Countenance in the Priesthood, and sent away the kingdom of the Jews, and came to the Gentiles. What then is, "He affected"? He was full of affection.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… liberty, and been made partakers of His gifts, do possess a greater amount of grace, and a higher degree of exultation, rejoicing because of the King's arrival: as also David says, "My soul shall rejoice in the Lord; it shall be glad in His salvation." And for this cause, upon His entrance into Jerusalem, all those who were in the …
And the Psalmist says in his prayer, "I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother." But as the Divine nature is of higher excellence than, and far removed above, our nature, the command to love God is distinct from that to love our neighbor.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The Psalmist also says, I will give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, in the great Congregation; I will praise Thee among much people.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For example, there is no better way of understanding the words addressed to God, "Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for mine help," than by referring to the passage where we read, "Thou, Lord, hast crowned us with Thy favor as with a shield." And yet we are not so to understand it, as that wherever we …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)