Psalms 109
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise,
| למנצח לדוד מזמור אלהי תהלתי אל תחרש׃ |
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.
| כי פי רשע ופי מרמה עלי פתחו דברו אתי לשון שקר׃ |
3 They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
| ודברי שנאה סבבוני וילחמוני חנם׃ |
4 For my love they are my adversaries, but I make prayer.
| תחת אהבתי ישטנוני ואני תפלה׃ |
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
| וישימו עלי רעה תחת טובה ושנאה תחת אהבתי׃ |
6 Set thou a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
| הפקד עליו רשע ושטן יעמד על ימינו׃ |
7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, and let his prayer be turned into sin.
| בהשפטו יצא רשע ותפלתו תהיה לחטאה׃ |
8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
| יהיו ימיו מעטים פקדתו יקח אחר׃ |
9 Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
| יהיו בניו יתומים ואשתו אלמנה׃ |
10 Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
| ונוע ינועו בניו ושאלו ודרשו מחרבותיהם׃ |
11 Let a creditor exact all that he has, and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
| ינקש נושה לכל אשר לו ויבזו זרים יגיעו׃ |
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons.
| אל יהי לו משך חסד ואל יהי חונן ליתומיו׃ |
13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
| יהי אחריתו להכרית בדור אחר ימח שמם׃ |
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
| יזכר עון אבתיו אל יהוה וחטאת אמו אל תמח׃ |
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
| יהיו נגד יהוה תמיד ויכרת מארץ זכרם׃ |
16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.
| יען אשר לא זכר עשות חסד וירדף איש עני ואביון ונכאה לבב למותת׃ |
17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
| ויאהב קללה ותבואהו ולא חפץ בברכה ותרחק ממנו׃ |
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.
| וילבש קללה כמדו ותבא כמים בקרבו וכשמן בעצמותיו׃ |
19 Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
| תהי לו כבגד יעטה ולמזח תמיד יחגרה׃ |
20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
| זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על נפשי׃ |
21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake. Because thy loving kindness is good, deliver thou me,
| ואתה יהוה אדני עשה אתי למען שמך כי טוב חסדך הצילני׃ |
22 for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
| כי עני ואביון אנכי ולבי חלל בקרבי׃ |
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
| כצל כנטותו נהלכתי ננערתי כארבה׃ |
24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.
| ברכי כשלו מצום ובשרי כחש משמן׃ |
25 I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
| ואני הייתי חרפה להם יראוני יניעון ראשם׃ |
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to thy loving kindness,
| עזרני יהוה אלהי הושיעני כחסדך׃ |
27 that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, Jehovah, have done it.
| וידעו כי ידך זאת אתה יהוה עשיתה׃ |
28 Let them curse, but bless thou. When they arise, they shall be put to shame, but thy servant shall rejoice.
| יקללו המה ואתה תברך קמו ויבשו ועבדך ישמח׃ |
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
| ילבשו שוטני כלמה ויעטו כמעיל בשתם׃ |
30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
| אודה יהוה מאד בפי ובתוך רבים אהללנו׃ |
31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
| כי יעמד לימין אביון להושיע משפטי נפשו׃ |
