Latest / Pastor John Piper's answers / Psalm_035
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Psalm thirty five by David Contend Yahweh, with those who
- 0:07Speaker 1: contend with me, fight against those who fight against me.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for
- 0:13Speaker 1: my help. Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Tell my soul, I am your salvation. Let those who
- 0:21Speaker 1: seek after my soul be put to shame and brought
- 0:24Speaker 1: to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned
- 0:27Speaker 1: back and confounded. Let them be his chaff before the wind,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Yahweh's angel driving them on. Let their way be dark
- 0:35Speaker 1: and slippery, Yahweh's Angel pursuing them, for without cause, they
- 0:40Speaker 1: have hidden their net in a pit for me, without cause,
- 0:43Speaker 1: they have dug a pit for my soul. Let destruction
- 0:46Speaker 1: come on him unawares. Let his net that he is
- 0:49Speaker 1: hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. My
- 0:53Speaker 1: souls shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in
- 0:57Speaker 1: his salvation. All my bones shall say, Yahweh, who is
- 1:01Speaker 1: like you who delivers the poor from him who is
- 1:04Speaker 1: too strong for him? Yes, the poor and the needy
- 1:07Speaker 1: from him who robs him. Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They
- 1:11Speaker 1: ask me about things that I don't know about. They
- 1:14Speaker 1: reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- 1:18Speaker 1: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing
- 1:21Speaker 1: was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting my prayer
- 1:25Speaker 1: returned into my own bosom. I behaved myself as though
- 1:28Speaker 1: it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down, mourning,
- 1:32Speaker 1: as one who mourns his mother. But in my adversity
- 1:36Speaker 1: they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves
- 1:40Speaker 1: together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore
- 1:43Speaker 1: at me and didn't cease, like the profane mockers in feast.
- 1:47Speaker 1: They gnashed their teeth at me. Lord, how long will
- 1:50Speaker 1: you look on rescue my soul from their destruction, my
- 1:54Speaker 1: precious life from the lions. I will give you thanks
- 1:57Speaker 1: in the great assembly. I will praise you a mong
- 2:00Speaker 1: many people. Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully
- 2:03Speaker 1: rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye
- 2:06Speaker 1: who hate me without a cause. For they don't speak peace,
- 2:10Speaker 1: but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet
- 2:13Speaker 1: in the land. Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.
- 2:17Speaker 1: They said, aha, aha, our eye has seen it you
- 2:20Speaker 1: have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent, Lord, don't be
- 2:24Speaker 1: far from me. Wake up, Rise up to defend me,
- 2:28Speaker 1: my God, My Lord, contend for me, vindicate me, Yahweh,
- 2:32Speaker 1: my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat
- 2:35Speaker 1: over me. Don't let them say in their heart, aha,
- 2:39Speaker 1: that's the way we want it. Don't let them say
- 2:41Speaker 1: we have swallowed him up. Let them be put to
- 2:44Speaker 1: shame and confounded together, who rejoice at my calamity. Let
- 2:48Speaker 1: them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves
- 2:52Speaker 1: against me. Let them shout for joy and be glad
- 2:55Speaker 1: who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually Yahweh,
- 3:00Speaker 1: be magnified who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
- 3:04Speaker 1: My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your
- 3:07Speaker 1: praise all day long.