Revised Literal Translation

Psalms 35:11-16

11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.1 2

12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.3

13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.4

14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.5 6

15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:7

16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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Notes

1. Psalms 35:11 False…: Heb. Witnesses of wrong. ↩
2. Psalms 35:11 they…: Heb. they asked me. ↩
3. Psalms 35:12 spoiling: Heb. depriving. ↩
4. Psalms 35:13 humbled: or, afflicted. ↩
5. Psalms 35:14 behaved myself: Heb. walked. ↩
6. Psalms 35:14 as though…: Heb. as a friend, as a brother to me. ↩
7. Psalms 35:15 adversity: Heb. halting. ↩

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