Psalms 35:11-21

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

12They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.

13But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.

14I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.

15But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;

16like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

17How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!

18I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

19Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

20For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.

21They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!"