{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/psalms/35","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:37:32.726Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":35,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":34,"nextChapter":36,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, |I am your salvation.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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?|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, |Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!|"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"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!|"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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!|"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 35 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 35](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/35)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/35 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}