< Psalms 109 >
1 to/for to conduct to/for David melody God praise my not be quiet
God, you are the one whom I praise, [So please] answer [my prayer],
2 for lip wicked and lip deceit upon me to open to speak: speak with me tongue deception
because wicked people slander me and tell [MTY] lies about me.
3 and word hating to turn: surround me and to fight me for nothing
They are constantly saying that they hate me, and they say evil things about me for no reason.
4 underneath: instead love my to oppose me and I prayer
I show them that I want to be their friends and I pray for them, but [instead of being kind to me], they say that I have done evil things.
5 and to set: put upon me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare and hating underneath: instead love my
In return for my doing good things for them and loving them, they do evil things to me and hate me.
6 to reckon: overseer upon him wicked and Satan to stand: stand upon right his
They said, “Appoint a wicked [judge] who will judge him, and bring in one of his enemies who will stand up and accuse him.
7 in/on/with to judge he to come out: come wicked and prayer his to be to/for sin
And cause that when the trial [ends], [the judge will] declare that he is guilty, and that [even] his prayer will be considered to be a sin.
8 to be day his little punishment his to take: take another
[Then], cause that he will soon die and that someone else will have his job/work (OR, possessions).
9 to be son: child his orphan and woman: wife his widow
Cause that his children will not have a father any more and that his wife will become a widow.
10 and to shake to shake son: child his and to ask and to seek from desolation their
Cause that his children will be forced to leave the ruined homes that they have been living in and wander around begging for food.
11 to snare to lend to/for all which to/for him and to plunder be a stranger toil his
Cause that all the people to whom he owed money will seize all his property; Cause that strangers will take away everything that he worked to acquire.
12 not to be to/for him to draw kindness and not to be be gracious to/for orphan his
Cause that [while he is still living] no one will be kind to him, and [after he dies], cause that no one will pity his children.
13 to be end his to/for to cut: eliminate in/on/with generation another to wipe name their
Cause that all his descendants will die and that his grandchildren will not remember who he [MTY] was.
14 to remember iniquity: crime father his to(wards) LORD and sin mother his not to wipe
Yahweh, remember [and do not forgive] his ancestors for the evil things that they did, and do not [even] forgive the sins that his mother committed;
15 to be before LORD continually and to cut: eliminate from land: country/planet memorial their
think about his sins continually, and cause that his name will be completely forgotten.
16 because which not to remember to make: do kindness and to pursue man: anyone afflicted and needy and be disheartened heart to/for to die
He never was kind to anyone; he (persecuted/cause problems for) poor and needy [people] and even killed helpless [people].
17 and to love: lover curse and to come (in): come him and not to delight in in/on/with blessing and to remove from him
He liked to curse [people]. [So] cause those terrible things that he requested to happen to others to happen to him! He did not want to bless [others], [so] cause that no one will bless him!
18 and to clothe curse like/as garment his and to come (in): come like/as water in/on/with entrails: inner parts his and like/as oil in/on/with bone his
He cursed other people [as often/easily] as he put on his clothes [SIM]; cause that the terrible things that he wanted to happen to others will [happen to him and] enter his body like water [that he drinks] [SIM], like [olive] oil soaks into a person’s bones [when it is rubbed on his skin] [SIM].
19 to be to/for him like/as garment to enwrap and to/for belt continually to gird her
Cause that those terrible things will cling to him like his clothes and be around him like the belt that he wears every day.”
20 this wages to oppose me from with LORD and [the] to speak: speak bad: evil upon soul: life my
Yahweh, I want you to punish all my enemies that way, those who say evil things about me.
21 and you(m. s.) YHWH/God Lord to make: do with me because name your for pleasant kindness your to rescue me
But Yahweh, my God, do good things for me in order that I may honor you; rescue me [from my enemies] because your faithfully loving me is good.
22 for afflicted and needy I and heart my to bore in/on/with entrails: among my
[I ask you to do this] because I am poor and needy and my inner being is (full of pain/very troubled/discouraged).
23 like/as shadow like/as to stretch he to go: went to shake like/as locust
[I think that] my time [to remain alive] is short, like an evening shadow [that will soon disappear] [SIM]. I will be blown away like a locust/grasshopper is blown [by the wind].
24 knee my to stumble from fast and flesh my to deceive from oil
My knees are weak because I have (fasted/abstained from eating food) very often, and my body has become very thin.
25 and I to be reproach to/for them to see: see me to shake [emph?] head their
The people who accuse me make fun of me; when they see me, they [insult me by] shaking their heads [at me as though I were an evil man].
26 to help me LORD God my to save me like/as kindness your
Yahweh, my God, help me! Because you faithfully love [me], rescue me!
27 and to know for hand your this you(m. s.) LORD to make: do her
[When you save me], cause my enemies to know that you are the one who has done it!
28 to lighten they(masc.) and you(m. s.) to bless to arise: rise and be ashamed and servant/slave your to rejoice
They may curse me, but I ask that you bless me. Cause those who (persecute/cause problems for) me [to be defeated and as a result] to be disgraced/ashamed, and cause me to be glad/happy!
29 to clothe to oppose me shame and to enwrap like/as robe shame their
Cause those who accuse me to be completely disgraced; cause [other people to see] that they are disgraced, as [easily as they see] the clothes that they wear [SIM]!
30 to give thanks LORD much in/on/with lip my and in/on/with midst many to boast: praise him
But I will thank Yahweh very greatly; I will praise him [when I am] among the crowd [of people who are worshiping him].
31 for to stand: stand to/for right needy to/for to save from to judge soul his
[I will do that] because he defends [MTY] needy [people like me], and saves us from those who have decided/declared that we must be executed.