1 [A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation. 4 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. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them]. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 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? 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul. 13 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. 14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother. 15 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: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it]. 22 [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 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. 27 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. 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long.
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Psalm 35 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalm titles are printed as the start of verse 1.
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)