Psalms 109:1
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise,
Psalms 109:2
for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109:3
They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries, but I make prayer.
Psalms 109:5
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:6
Set thou a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7
When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, and let his prayer be turned into sin.
Psalms 109:8
Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11
Let a creditor exact all that he has, and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
Psalms 109:12
Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons.
Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15
Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
Psalms 109:16
because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.
Psalms 109:17
Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
Psalms 109:18
He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms 109:19
Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:20
This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:21
But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake. Because thy loving kindness is good, deliver thou me,
Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.
Psalms 109:25
I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
Psalms 109:26
Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to thy loving kindness,
Psalms 109:27
that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, Jehovah, have done it.
Psalms 109:28
Let them curse, but bless thou. When they arise, they shall be put to shame, but thy servant shall rejoice.
Psalms 109:29
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Psalms 109:30
I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.