engLXXup: Psalms 34

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 [1] A Psalm of David.

Judge thou, O Lord, them that injure me,

Fight against them that fight against me.

[2] Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.

[3] Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me:

Say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

[4] Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded:

Let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.

[5] Let them be as dust before the wind,

And an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

[6] Let their way be dark and slippery,

And an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

[7] For without cause they have hidden for me their destructive snare:

Without a cause they have reproached my soul.

[8] Let a snare which they know not come upon them;

And the gin which they hid take them:

And let them fall into the very same snare.

[9] But my soul shall exult in the Lord:

It shall delight in his salvation.

[10] All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee?

Delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he,

Yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

[11] Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.

[12] They rewarded me evil for good,

And bereavement to my soul.

[13] But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth,

And humbled my soul with fasting:

And my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

[14] I behaved agreeably toward them as if it had been our neighbor or brother:

I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

[15] Yet they rejoiced against me,

And plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not:

They were scattered, but repented not.

[16] They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously,

They gnashed their teeth upon me.

[17] O Lord, when wilt thou look upon me?

Deliver my soul from their mischief,

Mine only begotten one from the lions.

[18] I will give thanks to thee even in a great congregation:

In an abundant people I will praise thee.

[19] Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me;

Who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

[20] For to me they spoke peaceably,

But imagined deceits in their anger.

[21] And they opened wide their mouth upon me;

They said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

[22] Thou hast seen it, O Lord: keep not silence:

O Lord, withdraw not thyself from me.

[23] Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment,

Even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

[24] Judge me, O Lord, according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God;

And let them not rejoice against me.

[25] Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul:

Neither let them say, We have devoured him.

[26] Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions:

Let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

[27] Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad:

And let them say continually, The Lord be magnified,

Who desire the peace of his servant.

[28] And my tongue shall meditate on thy righteousness,

And on thy praise all the day.

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