Psalms 109

1 To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

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

2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

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 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

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

4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

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

5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.

6 Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, stand at his right hand;

7 When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;

8 Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

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

9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

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

10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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

11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

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

12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

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

13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

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

14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

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

15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

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

16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

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

17 As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let 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 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come 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 Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

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

20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

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

21 But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

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 in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

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

23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

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

24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

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

25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

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

26 Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

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

27 So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.

28 They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;

29 Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

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

30 I will give the Lord great praise with my mouth; yes, I will give praise to him among all the people.

I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;

31 For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.