¹ By David. Strive, Jehovah, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,

³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

¹ Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

²⁵ and turneth aside the wheels of their chariots, and they lead them with difficulty, and the Egyptians say, `Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.'

⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

³⁶ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

²⁵ For thus said Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty is taken, And the prey of the terrible is delivered, And with thy striver I strive, and thy sons I save.

¹¹ For their Redeemer `is' strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

¹⁵⁴ Plead my plea, and redeem me, According to Thy saying quicken me.

²⁰ in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.'

⁵⁸ Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

¹⁵ And Jehovah hath been for judge, and hath judged between me and thee, yea, he seeth and pleadeth my cause, and doth deliver me out of thy hand.'

⁴² and all these kings and their land hath Joshua captured `at' one time, for Jehovah, God of Israel, is fighting for Israel.

⁹ And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;'