Psalms 109

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

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.

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;

For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

3 And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:

They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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

For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.

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

And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

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

Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.

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

Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.

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

Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.

9 Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

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

Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

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

Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

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

Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

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

Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.

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

Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye 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 remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

17 Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him;

As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

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;

As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into 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:

Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

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

Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.

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 my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)

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

Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

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

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

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

My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

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

I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

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

Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.

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

And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

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

Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.

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

Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.

30 I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;

I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.

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

For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.