1 A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me. 2 Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe. 3 Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt. 5 Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them. 6 Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them. 7 For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule. 8 Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction. 9 Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation. 10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him! 11 Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not. 12 They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule. 13 Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome. 14 I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother. 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not, 16 With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions. 18 So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause. 20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande. 21 And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene. 22 Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord. 23 Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord. 24 Iudge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him. 26 Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me. 27 But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant. 28 And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.
Psalm 35 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Original 16th-century spelling.
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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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)