Psalms 109

1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O God of my praise, do not be silent,

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

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!

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 surrounded me about, And they fight 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 oppose me, and I—prayer!

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

5 And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

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

6 Appoint the wicked over him, And an adversary stands at his right hand.

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

7 In his being judged, he goes forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.

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

8 His days are few, another takes his oversight,

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

9 His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

11 An exactor lays a snare for all that he has, And strangers spoil his labor.

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

12 He has none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favor to his orphans.

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

13 His posterity is for cutting off, Their name is blotted out in another generation.

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

14 The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered to YHWH, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.

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

15 They are continually before YHWH, And He cuts off their memorial from earth.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of 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 that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.

17 And he loves reviling, and it meets him, And he has not delighted in blessing, And it is 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 And he puts on reviling as his robe, And it comes in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

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 It is to him as apparel—he covers himself, And he girds it on for a continual girdle.

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 wage of my accusers from YHWH, And of those speaking evil against my soul.

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

21 And You, O Lord YHWH, Deal with me for Your Name’s sake, Because Your kindness [is] good, deliver me.

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 needy, And my heart has been pierced in my midst.

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

23 I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, I have been driven away as a locust.

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

24 My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh has failed of fatness.

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

25 And I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

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

26 Help me, O YHWH my God, Save me, according to Your kindness.

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

27 And they know that this [is] Your hand, You, O YHWH, You have done it.

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

28 They revile, and You bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Your servant rejoices.

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

29 My accusers put on blushing, and are covered, Their shame [is] as an upper robe.

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

30 I thank YHWH greatly with my mouth, And I praise Him in the midst of many,

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 needy, To save from those judging his soul.

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