תהילים 109
| למנצח לדוד מזמור אלהי תהלתי אל תחרש׃ | 1 |
God of my tehilah ·praise song·, don’t remain silent,
| כי פי רשע ופי מרמה עלי פתחו דברו אתי לשון שקר׃ | 2 |
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
| ודברי שנאה סבבוני וילחמוני חנם׃ | 3 |
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
| תחת אהבתי ישטנוני ואני תפלה׃ | 4 |
Making teshuvah ·complete return· for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
| וישימו עלי רעה תחת טובה ושנאה תחת אהבתי׃ | 5 |
They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
| הפקד עליו רשע ושטן יעמד על ימינו׃ | 6 |
Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
| בהשפטו יצא רשע ותפלתו תהיה לחטאה׃ | 7 |
When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into cause for sacrifice for sin ·missing the goal·.
| יהיו ימיו מעטים פקדתו יקח אחר׃ | 8 |
Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
| יהיו בניו יתומים ואשתו אלמנה׃ | 9 |
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
| ונוע ינועו בניו ושאלו ודרשו מחרבותיהם׃ | 10 |
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
| ינקש נושה לכל אשר לו ויבזו זרים יגיעו׃ | 11 |
Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
| אל יהי לו משך חסד ואל יהי חונן ליתומיו׃ | 12 |
Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his orphan children.
| יהי אחריתו להכרית בדור אחר ימח שמם׃ | 13 |
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
| יזכר עון אבתיו אל יהוה וחטאת אמו אל תמח׃ | 14 |
Let the depravity (moral evil) of his fathers be remembered by Adonai. Don’t let the habitual sin ·missing the mark· of his mother be blotted out.
| יהיו נגד יהוה תמיד ויכרת מארץ זכרם׃ | 15 |
Let them be before Adonai continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
| יען אשר לא זכר עשות חסד וירדף איש עני ואביון ונכאה לבב למותת׃ | 16 |
because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
| ויאהב קללה ותבואהו ולא חפץ בברכה ותרחק ממנו׃ | 17 |
Yes, he 'ahav ·affectionately loved· cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
| וילבש קללה כמדו ותבא כמים בקרבו וכשמן בעצמותיו׃ | 18 |
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
| תהי לו כבגד יעטה ולמזח תמיד יחגרה׃ | 19 |
Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
| זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על נפשי׃ | 20 |
This is the reward of my adversaries from Adonai, of those who speak evil against my soul.
| ואתה יהוה אדני עשה אתי למען שמך כי טוב חסדך הצילני׃ | 21 |
But deal with me, Adonai the 'Adonay [Yahweh the Lord], for your name’s sake, because your chesed ·loving-kindness· is good, deliver me;
| כי עני ואביון אנכי ולבי חלל בקרבי׃ | 22 |
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
| כצל כנטותו נהלכתי ננערתי כארבה׃ | 23 |
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
| ברכי כשלו מצום ובשרי כחש משמן׃ | 24 |
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
| ואני הייתי חרפה להם יראוני יניעון ראשם׃ | 25 |
I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
| עזרני יהוה אלהי הושיעני כחסדך׃ | 26 |
Help me, Adonai, my God. Save me according to your chesed ·loving-kindness·;
| וידעו כי ידך זאת אתה יהוה עשיתה׃ | 27 |
that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Adonai, have done it.
| יקללו המה ואתה תברך קמו ויבשו ועבדך ישמח׃ | 28 |
They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
| ילבשו שוטני כלמה ויעטו כמעיל בשתם׃ | 29 |
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
| אודה יהוה מאד בפי ובתוך רבים אהללנו׃ | 30 |
I will give great thanks to Adonai with my mouth. Yes, I will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to him among the multitude.
| כי יעמד לימין אביון להושיע משפטי נפשו׃ | 31 |
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
