Psalms 109
1 To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. O God of my praise, do not be silent;
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 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;
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 And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon 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 have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.
And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, 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 judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;
May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;
May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12 Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped 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 Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.
May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16 Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.
Because he remembered not to show mercy,
17 Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him;
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18 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;
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 Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on:
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 But, thou, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me;
But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
22 For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 So, I, am become a reproach for 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 Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness:
Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.
And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;
They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, 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 Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, 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 Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.
Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
