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Psalm 35:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 35:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 How long,[a] O Lord, will you look on?
Rescue me from these ravening beasts;
preserve my precious life from these lions.
18 I will offer you thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise you amid the vast throng.
19 Do not allow my treacherous enemies
to gloat over me;
do not permit those who hate me without reason[b]
to wink their eyes at me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 35:17 How long . . . ?: see note on Ps 6:4. Lions: a metaphor for enemies.
- Psalm 35:19 Treacherous enemies . . . those who hate me without reason: cited in Jn 15:25, since this psalm as well as Ps 69 was regarded by the New Testament authors as foreshadowing the Passion of Christ.
