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19 Do not allow my treacherous enemies
    to gloat over me;
do not permit those who hate me without reason[a]
    to wink their eyes at me.
20 [b]For they do not speak words of peace,
    but they contrive deceitful words
    to lead astray the peaceful in the land.
21 They open wide their mouths shouting, “Aha! Aha!
    We have seen it with our own eyes.”

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Psalm 35:20 The enemies of the psalmist assail him and wrongly accuse him of some crime (see v. 11). These verses and verse 25 recall Ps 40:16; Lam 2:16; Ezek 25:3; 26:2; Hab 1:13.