Psm109:1 [For the choir director. A Psalm of David]. O God of my praise, Do not be silent!
Psm109:2 For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psm109:3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause.
Psm109:4 In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am [in] prayer.
Psm109:5 Thus they have repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
Psm109:6 Appoint a wicked man over him; And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
Psm109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer become sin.
Psm109:8 Let his days be few; Let another take his office.
Psm109:9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Psm109:10 Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek [sustenance] far from their ruined homes.
Psm109:11 Let the creditor seize all that he has; And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.
Psm109:12 Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
Psm109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; In a following generation let their name be blotted out.
Psm109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psm109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, That He may cut off their memory from the earth;
Psm109:16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put [them] to death.
Psm109:17 He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
Psm109:18 But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered into his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
Psm109:19 Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
Psm109:20 Let this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul.
Psm109:21 But Thou, O God, the Lord, deal [kindly] with me for Thy name's sake; Because Thy lovingkindness is good, deliver me;
Psm109:22 For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Psm109:23 I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.
Psm109:24 My knees are weak from fasting; And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
Psm109:25 I also have become a reproach to them; When they see me, they wag their head.
Psm109:26 Help me, O LORD my God; Save me according to Thy lovingkindness.
Psm109:27 And let them know that this is Thy hand; Thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psm109:28 Let them curse, but do Thou bless; When they arise, they shall be ashamed, But Thy servant shall be glad.
Psm109:29 Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Psm109:30 With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD; And in the midst of many I will praise Him.
Psm109:31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.