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

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

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

4 Let 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10 All 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?

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

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

13 But 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.

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

15 But 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:

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

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

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

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

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

21 Yea, 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.

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

24 Judge 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.

25 Let 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.

26 Let 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.

27 Let 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.

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