Psalms 109

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

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

2 O God, do not be silent toward my praise, for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful one have been opened 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 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues, and they have surrounded me with hateful words, and they fought against me over nothing.

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

4 Instead of choosing to act on my behalf, they detracted me. But I gave myself to prayer.

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

5 And they set evil against me, instead of good, and hatred, in return for my love.

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

6 Establish the sinner over him, and let the devil 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 judged, may he go forth in condemnation, and may his prayer be counted 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, and let another take his episcopate.

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

9 May his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow.

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

10 May his sons be carried by those who walk unsteadily, and may they go begging. And may they be cast out of their dwelling places.

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

11 May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors.

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 assist him, nor anyone to be compassionate to his orphaned children.

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

13 May his posterity be in utter ruin. In one generation, may his name be wiped away.

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

14 May the iniquity of his fathers return in memory before the sight of the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be wiped away.

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

15 May these be opposite the Lord always, but let their memory perish from the earth.

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

16 For certain things are not remembered about them, in order to be merciful.

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

17 And so the destitute man was pursued, with the beggar and the remorseful in heart, so as to be put to death.

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

18 And he loved a curse, and it came to him. And he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him. And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered 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 to him like a garment that covers him, and like a belt that always cinches him.

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

20 This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord and who speak evils against my soul.

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

21 But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name’s sake. For your mercy is sweet.

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

22 Free me, for I am destitute and poor, and my heart has been disquieted within me.

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

23 I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts.

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

24 My knees have been weakened by fasting, and my flesh has been replaced by oil.

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

25 And I have become a disgrace to them. They saw me, and they shook 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 mercy.

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

27 And let them know that this is your hand, and that you, O Lord, have done this.

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

28 They will curse, and you will bless. May those who rise up against me be confounded. But your servant will rejoice.

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

29 May those who detract me be clothed with shame, and may they be covered with their confusion, as if with a double cloak.

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

30 I will confess exceedingly to the Lord with my mouth. And I will praise him in the midst of the multitude.

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 poor, in order to save my soul from persecutors.

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