Psalms 109
1 To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. O God of my praise, do not be silent;
| למנצח לדוד מזמור אלהי תהלתי אל-תחרש |
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;
| כי פי רשע ופי-מרמה--עלי פתחו דברו אתי לשון שקר |
3 And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:
| ודברי שנאה סבבוני וילחמוני חנם |
4 For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:
| תחת-אהבתי ישטנוני ואני תפלה |
5 Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.
| וישימו עלי רעה תחת טובה ושנאה תחת אהבתי |
6 Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, stand at his right hand;
| הפקד עליו רשע ושטן יעמד על-ימינו |
7 When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;
| בהשפטו יצא רשע ותפלתו תהיה לחטאה |
8 Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;
| יהיו-ימיו מעטים פקדתו יקח אחר |
9 Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;
| יהיו-בניו יתומים ואשתו אלמנה |
10 Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;
| ונוע ינועו בניו ושאלו ודרשו מחרבותיהם |
11 Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;
| ינקש נושה לכל-אשר-לו ויבזו זרים יגיעו |
12 Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;
| אל-יהי-לו משך חסד ואל-יהי חונן ליתומיו |
13 Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;
| יהי-אחריתו להכרית בדור אחר ימח שמם |
14 Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;
| יזכר עון אבתיו--אל-יהוה וחטאת אמו אל-תמח |
15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.
| יהיו נגד-יהוה תמיד ויכרת מארץ זכרם |
16 Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.
| יען-- אשר לא זכר עשות חסד וירדף איש-עני ואביון--ונכאה לבב למותת |
17 Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him;
| ויאהב קללה ותבואהו ולא-חפץ בברכה ותרחק ממנו |
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;
| וילבש קללה כמדו ותבא כמים בקרבו וכשמן בעצמותיו |
19 Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on:
| תהי-לו כבגד יעטה ולמזח תמיד יחגרה |
20 This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life.
| זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על-נפשי |
21 But, thou, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me;
| ואתה יהוה אדני-- עשה-אתי למען שמך כי-טוב חסדך הצילני |
22 For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.
| כי-עני ואביון אנכי ולבי חלל בקרבי |
23 As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
| כצל-כנטותו נהלכתי ננערתי כארבה |
24 My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
| ברכי כשלו מצום ובשרי כחש משמן |
25 So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head.
| ואני הייתי חרפה להם יראוני יניעון ראשם |
26 Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness:
| עזרני יהוה אלהי הושיעני כחסדך |
27 That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.
| וידעו כי-ידך זאת אתה יהוה עשיתה |
28 They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;
| יקללו-המה ואתה תברך קמו ויבשו--ועבדך ישמח |
29 Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame.
| ילבשו שוטני כלמה ויעטו כמעיל בשתם |
30 I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;
| אודה יהוה מאד בפי ובתוך רבים אהללנו |
31 Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.
| כי-יעמד לימין אביון-- להושיע משפטי נפשו |
