Psalms 35:11-21

11Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know.

12They repay me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.

13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment); I humbled my soul with fasting, And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

14I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.

15But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me; They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

16Like godless jesters at a feast, They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].

17Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, My only life from the young lions.

18I will give You thanks in the great congregation; I will praise You among a mighty people.

19Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me; Nor let those who hate me without cause wink their eye [maliciously].

20For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.

21They open their mouths wide against me; They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”