For (A)without cause (B)they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug (C)a pit for my life.[a]
Let (D)destruction come upon him (E)when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
    let him fall into it—to his destruction!

Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
    (F)exulting in his salvation.
10 All my (G)bones shall say,
    “O Lord, (H)who is like you,
delivering the poor
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

11 (I)Malicious[b] witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I do not know.
12 (J)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[c]
13 But I, (K)when they were sick—
    I (L)wore sackcloth;
    I (M)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (N)with head bowed[d] on my chest.
14     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I (O)bowed down in mourning.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life
  2. Psalm 35:11 Or Violent
  3. Psalm 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul
  4. Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back

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