Psalms 109
1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
3 They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 May his days be few; may another take his position.
May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12 May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16 For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
Because he remembered not to show mercy,
17 The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18 The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
19 May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.
And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.
They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
30 With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.
I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
