Psalms 109:1
Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms 109:2
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109:3
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
Psalms 109:5
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:6
Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 109:8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11
Let the extortionist catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Psalms 109:12
Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:16
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:18
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms 109:19
Let it be to him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:20
Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:21
But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you 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 became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.
Psalms 109:26
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
Psalms 109:27
That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
Psalms 109:28
Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
Psalms 109:29
Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 109:30
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.