Psalms 109
1 “To the chief musician, by David, a psalm.” O God of my praise, do not keep silence.
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken with me with the tongue of falsehood.
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 Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me, and they fight against me without a 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 recompense for my love are they my accusers, while I have nothing but prayer.
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they impose evil on me in recompense for good, and hatred in lieu of my love.
And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint thou a wicked man over him: and 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 to be judged, let him go forth guilty, and let his prayer become sin.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek [their bread] out of their ruined places.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 Let the creditor lay snares after all that he hath, and let strangers plunder his labor.
May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12 Let him have none that extendeth kindness, and let there be none that is gracious to his fatherless children.
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 Let his posterity be cut off: in another generation let their name be blotted out.
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord, and let the sin of his mother not 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 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off from the earth their memory.
May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16 For the reason that he remembered not to show kindness; but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the grieved in heart to put him to death.
Because he remembered not to show mercy,
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come over him: and as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18 And he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it cometh like water within him, and like oil into his bones.
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 Let it be unto him as a garment in which he wrappeth himself, and for a girdle let him be continually girded with it.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, and of those that speak evil against my soul.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 But thou, O Eternal Lord, deal with me for the sake of thy name: because thy kindness is good, deliver thou me.
But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
22 For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees stumble through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 And I am become a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.
And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy kindness:
Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 That they may know that this is thy hand: that thou, Lord, hast truly done it.
And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them then curse, but do thou bless: when they arise, let them be made ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my accusers be clothed with confusion, and let them wrap themselves, as with a mantle, in their own shame.
Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
30 I will thank the Lord greatly with my mouth, and in the midst of many will I praise him.
I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31 For he ever standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.
Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
