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Psalms 34
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1(35) [A Psalm] of David. Judge you, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.
1I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.
2My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3Bring forth a sword, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.
3O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
4Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.
4I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.
5They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
6Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.
6This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.
7The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
8Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.
8O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.
9O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
10All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.
10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
11Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.
11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.
12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my [own] bosom.
13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14I behaved agreeably towards them as [if it had been] our neighbor [or] brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.
14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not: they were scattered, but repented not.
15The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.
16The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17O Lord , when will you look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, my only-begotten one from the lions.
17The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18I will give thanks to you even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise you.
18The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19Let not them that are my enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.
19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
20For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in [their] anger.
20He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen [it].
21Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22You have seen [it], O Lord : keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not [yourself] from me.
22The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.