תהילים 109

1 למנצח לדוד מזמור אלהי תהלתי אל-תחרש

Unto the end, a psalm for David.

2 כי פי רשע ופי-מרמה--עלי פתחו דברו אתי לשון שקר

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 ודברי שנאה סבבוני וילחמוני חנם

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 תחת-אהבתי ישטנוני ואני תפלה

Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

5 וישימו עלי רעה תחת טובה ושנאה תחת אהבתי

And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

6 הפקד עליו רשע ושטן יעמד על-ימינו

Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.

7 בהשפטו יצא רשע ותפלתו תהיה לחטאה

When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

8 יהיו-ימיו מעטים פקדתו יקח אחר

May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.

9 יהיו-בניו יתומים ואשתו אלמנה

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 ונוע ינועו בניו ושאלו ודרשו מחרבותיהם

Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

11 ינקש נושה לכל-אשר-לו ויבזו זרים יגיעו

May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

12 אל-יהי-לו משך חסד ואל-יהי חונן ליתומיו

May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

13 יהי-אחריתו להכרית בדור אחר ימח שמם

May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

14 יזכר עון אבתיו--אל-יהוה וחטאת אמו אל-תמח

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 יהיו נגד-יהוה תמיד ויכרת מארץ זכרם

May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

16 יען-- אשר לא זכר עשות חסד וירדף איש-עני ואביון--ונכאה לבב למותת

Because he remembered not to show mercy,

17 ויאהב קללה ותבואהו ולא-חפץ בברכה ותרחק ממנו

But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

18 וילבש קללה כמדו ותבא כמים בקרבו וכשמן בעצמותיו

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 תהי-לו כבגד יעטה ולמזח תמיד יחגרה

May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

20 זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על-נפשי

This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

21 ואתה יהוה אדני-- עשה-אתי למען שמך כי-טוב חסדך הצילני

But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.

22 כי-עני ואביון אנכי ולבי חלל בקרבי

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

23 כצל-כנטותו נהלכתי ננערתי כארבה

I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

24 ברכי כשלו מצום ובשרי כחש משמן

My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

25 ואני הייתי חרפה להם יראוני יניעון ראשם

And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,

26 עזרני יהוה אלהי הושיעני כחסדך

Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.

27 וידעו כי-ידך זאת אתה יהוה עשיתה

And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.

28 יקללו-המה ואתה תברך קמו ויבשו--ועבדך ישמח

They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

29 ילבשו שוטני כלמה ויעטו כמעיל בשתם

Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.

30 אודה יהוה מאד בפי ובתוך רבים אהללנו

I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.

31 כי-יעמד לימין אביון-- להושיע משפטי נפשו

Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.