Psalms 35
35
Rescue Me
A poetic song by King David # 35 This is the first of seven Psalms in which David cried out for vengeance upon his enemies (see Pss. 52; 58; 59; 69; 109; 137).
Part One – David, a Warrior
1O Lord, fight for me! Harass the hecklers; accuse my accusers.
Fight those who fight against me.
2-3Put on your armor, Lord; take up your shield and protect me.
Rise up, mighty God! Grab your weapons of war
and block the way of the wicked who come to fight me.
Stand for me when they stand against me!
Speak over my soul: “I am your strong Savior!” # 35:2–3 The Aramaic word used here is found thirty-three times in the Psalms and clearly means “Savior.” Although a New Testament concept, David had a deep understanding almost one thousand years before the Savior was born that God would become his Savior. The Hebrew word for “Savior,” Yasha, is very similar to the name Jesus, Yeshua.
4Humiliate those who seek my harm. Defeat them all!
Frustrate their plans to defeat me and drive them back.
Disgrace them all as they have devised their plans to disgrace me.
5Blow them away like dust in the wind,
with the angel of Almighty God driving them back!
6Make the road in front of them nothing but slippery darkness,
with the angel of Yahweh behind them, chasing them away!
7For though I did nothing wrong to them, they set a trap for me,
wanting me to fail and fall.
8Surprise them with your ambush, Lord,
and catch them in the very trap they set for me.
Let them be the ones to fail and fall into destruction!
9Then my fears will dissolve into limitless joy;
my whole being will overflow with gladness
because of your mighty deliverance.
10Everything inside of me will shout it out:
“There’s no one like you, Lord!”
For look at how you protect the weak and helpless
from the strong and heartless who oppress them.
Part Two – David, a Witness
11They are malicious men, hostile witnesses of wrong.
They rise up against me, accusers appearing out of nowhere.
12When I show them mercy, they bring me misery.
I’m forsaken and forlorn, like a motherless child.
13I even prayed over them when they were sick.
I was burdened and bowed low with fasting
and interceded for their healing,
and I didn’t stop praying.
14I grieved for them, heavyhearted,
as though they were my dearest family members
or my good friends who were sick,
nearing death, needing prayer.
15But when I was the one who tripped up and stumbled,
they came together to slander me,
rejoicing in my time of trouble, tearing me to shreds
with their lies and betrayal.
16These nameless ruffians,
mocking me like godless fools at a feast—
how they delight in throwing mud on my name.
17God, how long can you just stand there doing nothing?
Now is the time to act.
Rescue me from these brutal men,
for I am being torn to shreds by these beasts
who are out to get me.
Save me from their rage, their cruel grasp.
18Then I will praise you wherever I go.
And when everyone gathers for worship,
I will lift up your praise with a shout
in front of the largest crowd I can find!
Part Three – David, a Worshiper
19Don’t let those who fight me for no reason be victorious.
Don’t let them succeed, these heartless haters
who come against me with their gloating sneers.
20They are the ones who would never seek peace as friends,
for they are ever devising deceit against the innocent ones
who mind their own business.
21They open their mouths with ugly grins,
gloating with glee over my every fault.
“Look,” they say, “we caught him red-handed!
We saw him fall with our own eyes!”
22Yahweh, my caring God, you have been there all along.
You have seen their hypocrisy.
Yahweh, don’t let them get away with this.
Don’t walk away without doing something.
23Now is the time to awake! Rise up, Lord!
Vindicate me, my Lord and my God!
24You have every right to judge me, Lord,
according to your righteousness,
but don’t let them rejoice over me when I stumble.
25-26Let them all be ashamed of themselves,
humiliated when they rejoice over my every blunder.
Shame them, Lord, when they say, “We saw what he did.
Now we have him right where we want him.
Let’s get him while he’s down!”
Make them look ridiculous when they exalt themselves over me.
May they all be disgraced and dishonored!
27But let all my true friends shout for joy,
all those who know and love what I do for you.
Let them all say, “The Lord is great,
and he delights in the prosperity of his servant.”
28Then I won’t be able to hold it in—
everyone will hear my joyous praises all day long!
Your righteousness will be the theme of my glory-song of praise!
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PSALM 35
1 To David. [The psalm of David.] Lord, deem thou them, that annoy me; overcome thou them, that fight against me.
2Take thou armours and shield; and rise up into help to me.
3Hold out the sword, and close altogether the way against them that pursue me; say thou to my soul, I am thine health.
4They that seek my life; be shamed, and ashamed. They that think evils to me; be turned away backward, and be they shamed.
5Be they made as dust before the face of the wind; and the angel of the Lord make them strait.
6Their way be made darkness, and sliderness; and the angel of the Lord pursue them.
7For without cause they hid to me the death of their snare; in vain they despised my soul.
8The snare which he knoweth not come to him, and the taking which he hid take him; and fall he into the snare in that thing.
9But my soul shall fully have joy in the Lord; and shall delight on his health.
10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like thee? Thou deliverest a poor man from the hand of his stronger; a needy man and poor from them that diversely ravish him.
11Wicked witnesses rising asked me things, which I knew not.
12They yielded to me evils for goods; barrenness to my soul.
13But when they were dis-easeful to me; I was clothed in an hair-shirt. I meeked my soul in fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.
14I pleased so as our neighbour, as our brother; I was made meek, so as mourning and sorrowful.
15And they were glad, and came together against me; torments were gathered on me, and I knew it not. They were scattered, and not compunct;
16they tempted me, they scorned me with mocking, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
17Lord, when thou shalt behold, restore thou my soul from the wicked-ness of them; mine one alone from lions.
18I shall acknowledge to thee in a great church; I shall praise thee in a firm people.
19They that be adversaries wickedly to me, have not joy on me; that hate me without cause, and beckon with eyes.
20For soothly they spake not peace-ably to me; and they speaking in wrath-fulness of [the] earth, thought guiles.
21And they made large their mouth on me; they said, Well, well! our eyes have seen.
22Lord, thou hast seen, be thou not still; Lord, depart thou not from me.
23Rise up, and give attention to my doom; my God and my Lord, behold into my cause.
24My Lord God, deem thou me by thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; and have they not joy on me.
25Say they not in their hearts, Well, well, to our soul; neither say they, We shall devour him.
26Shame they, and dread they together; that joy for mine evils. Be they clothed with shame and dread; that speak evil things on me.
27Have they full joy, and be they glad, that will or desire my rightful-ness [or rightwiseness]; and say they ever[more], The Lord be magnified, which desire the peace of his servant.
28And my tongue shall bethink thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; all day thy praising.
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