< Psalms 109 >
1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.
to/for to conduct to/for David melody God praise my not be quiet
2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
for lip wicked and lip deceit upon me to open to speak: speak with me tongue deception
3 They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
and word hating to turn: surround me and to fight me for nothing
4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
underneath: instead love my to oppose me and I prayer
5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
and to set: put upon me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare and hating underneath: instead love my
6 Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
to reckon: overseer upon him wicked and Satan to stand: stand upon right his
7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
in/on/with to judge he to come out: come wicked and prayer his to be to/for sin
8 May his days be few; may another take his position.
to be day his little punishment his to take: take another
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
to be son: child his orphan and woman: wife his widow
10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
and to shake to shake son: child his and to ask and to seek from desolation their
11 May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
to snare to lend to/for all which to/for him and to plunder be a stranger toil his
12 May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
not to be to/for him to draw kindness and not to be be gracious to/for orphan his
13 May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
to be end his to/for to cut: eliminate in/on/with generation another to wipe name their
14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
to remember iniquity: crime father his to(wards) LORD and sin mother his not to wipe
15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
to be before LORD continually and to cut: eliminate from land: country/planet memorial their
16 For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
because which not to remember to make: do kindness and to pursue man: anyone afflicted and needy and be disheartened heart to/for to die
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.
and to love: lover curse and to come (in): come him and not to delight in in/on/with blessing and to remove 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.
and to clothe curse like/as garment his and to come (in): come like/as water in/on/with entrails: inner parts his and like/as oil in/on/with bone his
19 May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
to be to/for him like/as garment to enwrap and to/for belt continually to gird her
20 May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
this wages to oppose me from with LORD and [the] to speak: speak bad: evil upon soul: life my
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.
and you(m. s.) YHWH/God Lord to make: do with me because name your for pleasant kindness your to rescue me
22 For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
for afflicted and needy I and heart my to bore in/on/with entrails: among my
23 I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
like/as shadow like/as to stretch he to go: went to shake like/as locust
24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
knee my to stumble from fast and flesh my to deceive from oil
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
and I to be reproach to/for them to see: see me to shake [emph?] head their
26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
to help me LORD God my to save me like/as kindness your
27 Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.
and to know for hand your this you(m. s.) LORD to make: do her
28 Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.
to lighten they(masc.) and you(m. s.) to bless to arise: rise and be ashamed and servant/slave your to rejoice
29 May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
to clothe to oppose me shame and to enwrap like/as robe shame their
30 With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.
to give thanks LORD much in/on/with lip my and in/on/with midst many to boast: praise him
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
for to stand: stand to/for right needy to/for to save from to judge soul his