Psalms 109
1 To the choirmaster of David a psalm O God of praise my may not you be silent.
For the leader. Of David, a psalm. O God whom I praise, keep not silence;
2 For [the] mouth of [the] wicked and a mouth of deceit on me they have opened they have spoken with me a tongue of falsehood.
for their wicked mouths they have opened against me, they speak to me with tongues that are false,
3 And words of hatred they have surrounded me and they have fought against me without cause.
they beset me with words of hatred, and fight without cause against me.
4 In place of love my they accuse me and I [am] prayer.
My love they requite with hostility, while for them I lift up my prayer.
5 And they have put on me evil in place of good and hatred in place of love my.
Evil for good they reward me, and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint on him a wicked [person] and an accuser let him stand on right [hand] his.
‘Set over him one who is godless,’ they say, ‘an opponent at his right hand.
7 When is judged he let him come forth guilty and prayer his let it become sin.
From his trial let him come forth guilty, may his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May they be days his few office his may he take another.
Grant that his days may be few, that his office be seized by another.
9 May they be children his fatherless ones and wife his a widow.
Grant that his children be fatherless, and that his wife be a widow.
10 And really may they wander children his and they will beg and they will seek away from ruins their.
Up and down may his children go begging, expelled from their desolate home.
11 May he strike a creditor to all that [belongs] to him and may they plunder strangers property his.
May all that he owns be seized by the creditor may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.
12 May not it belong to him [one who] prolongs loyalty and may not it belong [one who] shows favor to fatherless children his.
‘May none extend to him kindness, or pity his fatherless children.
13 May it be posterity his to cut off in a generation another may it be wiped out name their.
His descendants be doomed to destruction! Blotted out be his name in one generation!
14 May it be remembered - [the] iniquity of ancestors his to Yahweh and [the] sin of mother his may not it be wiped out.
May his father’s guilt be remembered, and his mother’s sin not blotted out:
15 Let them be before Yahweh continually and may he cut off from [the] earth memory their.
on record always before the Lord, and his memory root from the earth;
16 Because that - not he remembered to do loyalty and he harassed anyone poor and needy and disheartened of heart to put to [them] death.
for he gave no thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and the needy, drove the downhearted to death.
17 And he loved a curse and it came to him and not he delighted in blessing and it was far from him.
‘May the curses he loved light upon him, may the blessings he loathed be afar.
18 And he put on a curse like garment his and it went like water in inward part[s] his and like oil in bones his.
Like a garment he clothed him with curses; may they pierce to his inwards like water, and cling to his bones like oil.
19 May it be for him like a garment [which] he wraps himself and to a waistband [which] continually he girds on it.
Let them be like the robe he wraps round him, like the belt he wears every day.’
20 This [be] [the] wage[s] of accusers my from with Yahweh and those [who] speak evil on self my.
Be this the reward of my adversaries, of those who speak evil against me.
21 And you - O Yahweh O Lord deal with me for [the] sake of name your for [is] good covenant loyalty your deliver me.
But you, Lord my God, be true to your name, deal kindly with me; in your gracious kindness save me.
22 For [am] poor and needy I and heart my someone has pierced in inner being my.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 Like a shadow when stretches out it I have vanished I have been shaken off like locust.
I am gone like a lengthening shadow, I am shaken off like a locust.
24 Knees my they have staggered from fasting and flesh my it has become lean from fatness.
My knees totter from fasting, my flesh is shrivelled and spare.
25 And I - I have become a reproach to them they see me they shake! head their.
They heap insults upon me: when they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me O Yahweh God my save me according to covenant loyalty your.
Help me, O Lord my God, and save me in your kindness.
27 So they may know that [is] hand your this you O Yahweh you have done it.
Teach them that this is your hand, and your own doing, O Lord.
28 They will curse they and you you will bless they have arisen - and they have been ashamed and servant your he will rejoice.
Let them curse, if only you bless. Put my assailants to shame, and make your servant glad.
29 May they be clothed accusers my ignominy and may they be wrapped like robe shame their.
My opponents be clothed with dishonour, and wrapped in a robe of shame.
30 I will give thanks to Yahweh exceedingly with mouth my and in among many [people] I will praise him.
I give thanks to you, Lord, with loud voice, I give praise in the midst of the throng;
31 For he stands to [the] right [hand] of [the] needy to save [him] from [those who] judge self his.
for he stands by the poor, at his right hand, to save them from those who condemn them.
