Psalms 109
1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] God of my praise, do not remain silent,
To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. O God of my praise, do not be silent;
2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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 also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:
4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:
5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary 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, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;
8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;
10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;
13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Jehovah. Do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.
16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.
17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He did not delight in blessing, and it was 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 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like 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 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around 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 reward of my adversaries from Jehovah, of those who speak evil against my soul.
This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life.
21 But deal with me, Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving 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. My heart is wounded within me.
For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
25 I have also become a reproach to them. When 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, Jehovah, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness:
27 that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Jehovah, have done it.
That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.
28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame.
30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;
31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.
