< Psalms 109 >

1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O God of my praise, do not be silent,
to/for to conduct to/for David melody God praise my not be quiet
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 lip wicked and lip deceit upon me to open to speak: speak with me tongue deception
3 They have surrounded me about, And they fight me without cause.
and word hating to turn: surround me and to fight me for nothing
4 For my love they oppose me, and I—prayer!
underneath: instead love my to oppose me and I prayer
5 And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
and to set: put upon me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare and hating underneath: instead love my
6 Appoint the wicked over him, And an adversary stands at his right hand.
to reckon: overseer upon him wicked and Satan to stand: stand upon right his
7 In his being judged, he goes forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.
in/on/with to judge he to come out: come wicked and prayer his to be to/for sin
8 His days are few, another takes his oversight,
to be day his little punishment his to take: take another
9 His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.
to be son: child his orphan and woman: wife his widow
10 And his sons wander continually, Indeed, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
and to shake to shake son: child his and to ask and to seek from desolation their
11 An exactor lays a snare for all that he has, And strangers spoil his labor.
to snare to lend to/for all which to/for him and to plunder be a stranger toil his
12 He has none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favor to his orphans.
not to be to/for him to draw kindness and not to be be gracious to/for orphan his
13 His posterity is for cutting off, Their name is blotted out in another generation.
to be end his to/for to cut: eliminate in/on/with generation another to wipe name their
14 The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered to YHWH, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.
to remember iniquity: crime father his to(wards) LORD and sin mother his not to wipe
15 They are continually before YHWH, And He cuts off their memorial from earth.
to be before LORD continually and to cut: eliminate from land: country/planet memorial their
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 which not to remember to make: do kindness and to pursue man: anyone afflicted and needy and be disheartened heart to/for to die
17 And he loves reviling, and it meets him, And he has not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.
and to love: lover curse and to come (in): come him and not to delight in in/on/with blessing and to remove 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.
and to clothe curse like/as garment his and to come (in): come like/as water in/on/with entrails: inner parts his and like/as oil in/on/with bone his
19 It is to him as apparel—he covers himself, And he girds it on for a continual girdle.
to be to/for him like/as garment to enwrap and to/for belt continually to gird her
20 This [is] the wage of my accusers from YHWH, And of those speaking evil against my soul.
this wages to oppose me from with LORD and [the] to speak: speak bad: evil upon soul: life my
21 And You, O Lord YHWH, Deal with me for Your Name’s sake, Because Your kindness [is] good, deliver me.
and you(m. s.) YHWH/God Lord to make: do with me because name your for pleasant kindness your to rescue me
22 For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart has been pierced in my midst.
for afflicted and needy I and heart my to bore in/on/with entrails: among my
23 I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, I have been driven away as a locust.
like/as shadow like/as to stretch he to go: went to shake like/as locust
24 My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh has failed of fatness.
knee my to stumble from fast and flesh my to deceive from oil
25 And I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.
and I to be reproach to/for them to see: see me to shake [emph?] head their
26 Help me, O YHWH my God, Save me, according to Your kindness.
to help me LORD God my to save me like/as kindness your
27 And they know that this [is] Your hand, You, O YHWH, You have done it.
and to know for hand your this you(m. s.) LORD to make: do her
28 They revile, and You bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Your servant rejoices.
to lighten they(masc.) and you(m. s.) to bless to arise: rise and be ashamed and servant/slave your to rejoice
29 My accusers put on blushing, and are covered, Their shame [is] as an upper robe.
to clothe to oppose me shame and to enwrap like/as robe shame their
30 I thank YHWH greatly with my mouth, And I praise Him in the midst of many,
to give thanks LORD much in/on/with lip my and in/on/with midst many to boast: praise him
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.
for to stand: stand to/for right needy to/for to save from to judge soul his

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