Psalms 35:23
Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my Lord, for my cause.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
In Context
22But you have seen, too, O Lord, keep not silence, O Lord, be not far from me.
24You are just, Lord: win for me justice, let them not rejoice over me,
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, Lord, in anger, against my foes rise in fury. Awake for my help: let justice be done.
Psalms 7:9Put an end to the wrong of the wicked, protect the righteous. Searcher of hearts and minds, righteous God.
Psalms 44:24Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
Psalms 74:22Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you.
Psalms 89:26“As for him, he will call me ‘My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.’
Psalms 142:5So I cry to you, O Lord: I say, “My refuge are you, all I have in the land of the living.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:18-28
Sorrowful Complaints; David's Appeal and Prayer to God. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee 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… Read the whole commentary →