¹Plead [my cause] , O Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] , with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

²Take hold of shield and buckler (round shielf held with a grip) , and stand up for mine help.

³Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] youri salvation.

⁴Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] chase [them] .

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] persecute them.

⁷For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

⁸Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

⁹And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] : it shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] , who [is] like unto youi , which delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

¹⁷Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] , how long will youi look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

¹⁸I will give youi thanks in the great congregation: I will praise youi among much people.

¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

²⁰For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

²¹Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen [it] .

²²[This] youi have seen, O Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] : keep not silence: O Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] , be not far from me.

²³Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] and my Lord.

²⁴Judge me, O Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , according to youri righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed him up.

²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

²⁷Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord -Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

²⁸And my tongue shall speak of youri righteousness [and] of youri praise all the day long.