Psalms 35:24

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 made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

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.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

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

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

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

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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

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

“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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

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

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

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

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

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

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

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

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

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

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

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

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

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”