Psalms 35:19

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.