Psalm 35:12-16

Great Is the Lord

12 p They repay me evil for good;
my soul is bereft. 1
13 But I, q when they were sick -
I r wore sackcloth;
I s afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed t with head bowed 2 on my chest.
 14 I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I u bowed down in mourning.

15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me;
v wretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
 16 like profane mockers at a feast, 3
they w gnash at me with their teeth.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 38:20
    Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
    Psalms 109:4
    In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
    Jeremiah 18:20
    Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
    John 10:32
    Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?
  2. Cross References
    Job 30:25
    Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 69:11
    When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
    1 Kings 20:31
    And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 69:10
    When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
    Numbers 29:7
    On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 10:13
    And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
    Luke 10:6
    And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 38:6
    I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
  7. Cross References
    Job 30:1
    But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
    Job 30:8
    A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
    Job 30:12
    On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 37:12
    The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
    Job 16:9
    He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
    Lamentations 2:16
    All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!
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