1Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
2Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to help me!
3Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
9Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his deliverance.
10All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.
11Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me about things I do not know.
12They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
13But as for me, when they were sick, I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
14as though I grieved for a friend or a brother; I went about as one who laments for a mother, bowed down and in mourning.
15But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; ruffians whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
16they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.
17How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
18Then I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.
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