DAY 129

Psalms 35-38

Psalms 35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Psalms 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Psalms 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Psalms 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Psalms 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalms 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalms 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Psalms 35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

Psalms 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Psalms 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Psalms 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalms 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Psalms 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psalms 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

Psalms 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalms 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalms 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalms 35:22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalms 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psalms 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Psalms 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalms 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalms 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.



Psalms 36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalms 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Psalms 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

Psalms 36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Psalms 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Psalms 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psalms 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Psalms 36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalms 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Psalms 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalms 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Psalms 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Psalms 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalms 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Psalms 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalms 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Psalms 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

Psalms 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Psalms 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Psalms 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Psalms 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

Psalms 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalms 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalms 37:26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

Psalms 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Psalms 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Psalms 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Psalms 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Psalms 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psalms 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Psalms 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psalms 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Psalms 38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Psalms 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Psalms 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Psalms 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalms 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Psalms 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalms 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Psalms 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Psalms 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

Psalms 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Psalms 38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Psalms 38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

Psalms 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

Psalms 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.