Psalms 109
1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O God of my praise, do not be silent,
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, They have opened against me, They have spoken with me—A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!
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 They have surrounded me about, And they fight me without 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 For my love they oppose me, and I—prayer!
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint the wicked over him, And an adversary stands at his right hand.
Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7 In his being judged, he goes forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 His days are few, another takes his oversight,
May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 And his sons wander continually, Indeed, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 An exactor lays a snare for all that he has, And strangers spoil his labor.
May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12 He has none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favor to his orphans.
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 His posterity is for cutting off, Their name is blotted out in another generation.
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered to YHWH, And the sin of his mother is not 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 They are continually before YHWH, And He cuts off their memorial from earth.
May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16 Because that he has not remembered to do kindness, And pursues the poor man and needy, And the struck of heart—to slay,
Because he remembered not to show mercy,
17 And he loves reviling, and it meets him, And he has not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18 And he puts on reviling as his robe, And it comes in as water into his midst, And as 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 It is to him as apparel—he covers himself, And he girds it on for a continual girdle.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 This [is] the wage of my accusers from YHWH, And of those speaking evil against my soul.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 And You, O Lord YHWH, Deal with me for Your Name’s sake, Because Your kindness [is] good, deliver me.
But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
22 For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart has been pierced in my midst.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, I have been driven away as a locust.
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh has failed of fatness.
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 And I have been a reproach to them, 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 YHWH my God, Save me, according to Your kindness.
Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 And they know that this [is] Your hand, You, O YHWH, You have done it.
And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 They revile, and You bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Your servant rejoices.
They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 My accusers put on blushing, and are covered, Their shame [is] as an upper robe.
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 thank YHWH greatly with my mouth, And I praise Him in the midst of many,
I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.
Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
