Psm109:1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!
Psm109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
Psm109:3 They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Psm109:4 In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.
Psm109:5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psm109:6 Appoint a wicked man against him;let an accuser bring him to trial.
Psm109:7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;let his prayer be counted as sin!
Psm109:8 May his days be few;may another seize his goods!
Psm109:9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
Psm109:10 May his children wander about and beg;may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
Psm109:11 May the creditor seize all that he has;may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
Psm109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
Psm109:13 May his posterity be cut off;may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
Psm109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
Psm109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually;and may his memory be cut off from the earth!
Psm109:16 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.
Psm109:17 He loved to curse;let curses come on him! He did not like blessing;may it be far from him!
Psm109:18 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
Psm109:19 May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!
Psm109:20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!
Psm109:21 But thou, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name's sake;because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!
Psm109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
Psm109:23 I am gone, like a shadow at evening;I am shaken off like a locust.
Psm109:24 My knees are weak through fasting;my body has become gaunt.
Psm109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;when they see me, they wag their heads.
Psm109:26 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!
Psm109:27 Let them know that this is thy hand;thou, O LORD, hast done it!
Psm109:28 Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame;may thy servant be glad!
Psm109:29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!
Psm109:30 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD;I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
Psm109:31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.