Psalms 35:23
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
In Context
22You have seen it, LORD. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
24Vindicate me, LORD my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psalms 7:9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
Psalms 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Psalms 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 142:5I cried to you, LORD. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion 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 →