Psalm Vol. 1 - College Press

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PSALM THIRTY-FIVE
and let his own net which he hath hidden capture him,into
the pit that he digged let him fall.
Then my soul will exult in Jehovahwill
exult in his sa1vation.l
All my bones will say “Jehovah! wh,o is like unto theerescuing
the humbled from one stronger than he,
yea, the humbled and needy, from his spoiler?”
There keep rising up witnesses promoting violenceof
what I know not they question me:
They repay me evil for gooda
bereavement to my SOUL2
But as for me when they were mortally wounded my clothing
was sackcloth !
I humbled with fasting my soul,
though my prayer on mine own bosom might return;3
Like as for a friend like as for mine own brother I bowed
myself down,4
Like as one mourning for a mother I gloomily walked to
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But when I stumbled they rejoiced and thronged hogether,
there thronged together against me smiters and I knew not,
they cried out5 and were not silent :
Amidst profane praters of perversion6 have they gnashed
upon me their teeth.
My Sovereign Lord! how llong wilt th’ou look on?
Recover my soul from their ravagesfrom
lions my solitary self.
I will thank thee in a large assembly,T
amidst a numerous people )will I praise thee.
Let not those rejoice over me who are my f’oes for false
reason,
nor those who hate me without cause wink the eye;
For no salutation do they utter,
1. Or: “victory.)’
2. “Such conduct makes him feel as desolate as a childless mother”-Kp.
8. “And my prayer-may it return into mine own bosom” (“SO true a
prayer was it”)-Per.
4. Gt. ‘‘bowed down” and “walked to and fro” should be thus transposed
-Gn.
6. Cp. a. Intro. 144.
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6. Or: “as profane men, mockers for cakef1-0.G.
7. As in 22:25.
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