WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.340 Psalm 35, the Psalm of David. 00:05.280 --> 00:08.300 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me. 00:08.980 --> 00:10.580 Fight against them that fight against me. 00:11.520 --> 00:14.620 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 00:15.540 --> 00:19.140 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me. 00:19.900 --> 00:22.420 Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 00:23.360 --> 00:26.460 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul. 00:27.220 --> 00:30.340 Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 00:31.260 --> 00:35.040 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the Lord chase them. 00:35.800 --> 00:39.660 Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord persecute 00:39.660 --> 00:39.920 them. 00:40.680 --> 00:45.460 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause 00:45.460 --> 00:46.680 they have digged for my soul. 00:47.760 --> 00:52.380 Let destruction come upon him at unawares, and let his net that he hath hid catch 00:52.380 --> 00:52.800 himself. 00:53.520 --> 00:58.220 Into that very destruction let him fall, and my soul shall be joyful in the Lord. 00:58.580 --> 01:00.260 It shall rejoice in his salvation. 01:01.100 --> 01:06.180 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from 01:06.180 --> 01:07.480 him that is too strong for him? 01:07.840 --> 01:10.220 Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him. 01:11.280 --> 01:12.700 False witnesses did rise up. 01:13.400 --> 01:15.380 They laid to my charge things that I knew not. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.240 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 01:19.940 --> 01:23.880 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. 01:24.640 --> 01:28.160 I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own 01:28.160 --> 01:28.420 bosom. 01:29.240 --> 01:32.260 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother. 01:33.060 --> 01:35.560 I bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother. 01:36.500 --> 01:40.420 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. 01:40.740 --> 01:44.560 Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. 01:45.260 --> 01:46.920 They did tear me and ceased not. 01:47.880 --> 01:51.660 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 01:52.760 --> 01:54.780 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? 01:55.580 --> 01:59.320 Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 02:00.200 --> 02:02.020 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation. 02:02.620 --> 02:04.380 I will praise thee among much people. 02:05.480 --> 02:09.940 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me, neither let 02:09.940 --> 02:12.100 them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 02:13.140 --> 02:17.500 For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful matters against them that are 02:17.500 --> 02:18.400 quiet in the land. 02:19.280 --> 02:24.960 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen 02:24.960 --> 02:25.240 it. 02:26.280 --> 02:29.100 This thou hast seen, O Lord, keep not silence. 02:29.840 --> 02:31.400 O Lord, be not far from me. 02:32.080 --> 02:36.620 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. 02:37.700 --> 02:42.720 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice 02:42.720 --> 02:43.220 over me. 02:43.940 --> 02:47.680 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it. 02:48.220 --> 02:50.980 Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 02:51.440 --> 02:54.980 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine 02:54.980 --> 02:55.240 hurt. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.060 Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against 03:00.060 --> 03:00.360 me. 03:01.340 --> 03:04.640 Let them shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. 03:05.080 --> 03:09.360 Yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath 03:09.360 --> 03:11.140 pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 03:12.300 --> 03:16.580 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the 03:16.580 --> 03:17.080 day long. 03:18.800 --> 03:20.940 This concludes Disc Number 30.