Psaumes 35.6
English standard version

Prière de David contre ses ennemis

¹ Of David.
Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me!
² Take hold of shield and buckler
and rise for my help!
³ Draw the spear and javelin
against my pursuers!
Say to my soul,
I am your salvation!
⁴ Let them be put to shame and dishonor
who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and disappointed
who devise evil against me!
⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
⁷ For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
⁸ Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it&emdash;to his destruction!
⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
exulting in his salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones shall say,
O Lord, 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 Malicious witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.
¹² They repay me evil for good;
my soul is bereft.
¹³ But I, when they were sick&emdash;
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
¹⁴ I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I bowed down in mourning.
¹⁵ But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me;
wretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
¹⁶ like profane mockers at a feast,
they gnash at me with their teeth.
¹⁷ How long, O Lord, will you look on?
Rescue me from their destruction,
my precious life from the lions!
¹⁸ I will thank you in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.
¹⁹ Let not those rejoice over me
who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye
who hate me without cause.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land
they devise words of deceit.
²¹ They open wide their mouths against me;
they say, Aha, Aha!
Our eyes have seen it!
²² You have seen, O Lord; be not silent!
O Lord, be not far from me!
²³ Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,
for my cause, my God and my Lord!
²⁴ Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
according to your righteousness,
and let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts,
Aha, our heart's desire!
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
²⁶ Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether
who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me!
²⁷ Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
and say evermore,
Great is the Lord,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!
²⁸ Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness
and of your praise all the day long.