Psalm 35:7-14

English Standard Version

⁷ For ^(A)without cause ^(B)they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug ^(C)a pit for my life.^[a]
8 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!

⁹ 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.