Psalms 109

1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.

To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. O God of my praise, do not be silent;

2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

For, the mouth of the lawless one and the mouth of the deceiver, against me, are open, They have spoken to me with false tongue;

3 They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:

4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:

5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Yea they have returned unto 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 in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, 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, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;

8 May his days be few; may another take his position.

Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;

9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;

11 May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;

12 May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;

13 May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;

14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;

15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

16 For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.

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.

Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him;

18 The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;

19 May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on:

20 May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life.

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, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me;

22 For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.

23 I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;

24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:

25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head.

26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.

Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness:

27 Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.

That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, 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, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;

29 May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame.

30 With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.

I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I 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 standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.