Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from those who are too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him? Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies, nor let them wink with their eyes those who hate me without a cause. Psalm 35

“Fierce witnesses rise up, they ask me things I do not know, and they reward me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul. But, as for me when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I humbled myself with fasting, and my prayer would return to my own heart, I paced about as though he were my friend or brother, I bowed down as one who mourns for his mother, but in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered together, attackers gathered against me and I did not know it, they tore at me and did not cease, they gnashed at me with their teeth. Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue me 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.” There is none like you O Lord, who delivers the poor from those who are too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him. Thank you, Lord, for protection and deliverance. Continually watch over us.