Hey everyone, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible

verse by verse. Super glad to have you have you here today on this 26th day of February, which happens to be

my stepdad John's birthday. So John, if you're listening, happy birthday to you. Super glad that

you are in my life and I pray a blessing over you right now.

Today I'm reading Psalm 35. It's a Psalm of David in the World English Bible and this is what it says.

Contend Yahweh with those who contend with me.

Fight against those who fight against me take hold of

shield and buckler and stand up for my help brandish the spear and block

those who pursue me tell my soul I am your salvation let those who seek

after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be as chafe before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

Let their way be dark and slippery Yahweh's angel pursuing them.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me without cause they have dug a pit for my soul let destruction come on him unawares let his net that he is hidden catch himself let him fall into that destruction my soul shall be joyful in yahway it shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say,

Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him? Yes, the

poor and the needy from him who robs him. Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things

that I don't know about. They reward me evil for good to the bereaving of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning as one who mourns his mother. But in my adversity, they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me and didn't cease. Like the profane mockers

and feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from

their destruction, my precious life from the lions. I will give you thanks in the great assembly.

I will praise you among many people. Don't let those who are my

enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.

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