| 1 | O God of my praise! Keep not silence, |
| 2 | For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me
and
against me with lying tongues. |
| 3 | They have compassed me about also with words of hatred and have fought against me without a cause. |
| 4 | In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer. |
| 5 | And they have rewarded
and
laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
| 6 | Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand. |
| 7 | When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin. |
| 8 | Let his days be few; and let another take his office
and
charge. |
| 9 | Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. |
| 10 | Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread
and
be driven far from their ruined homes. |
| 11 | Let the creditor
and
extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor. |
| 12 | Let there be none to extend
or
continue mercy
and
kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. |
| 13 | Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out. |
| 14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
| 15 | Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth!— |
| 16 | Because the man did not [earnestly] remember to show mercy, but pursued
and
persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart [he was ready] to slay. |
| 17 | Yes, he loved cursing, and it came [back] upon him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. |
| 18 | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it seeped into his inward [life] like water, and like oil into his bones. |
| 19 | Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself and as the girdle with which he is girded continually. |
| 20 | Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my life. |
| 21 | But You deal with me
and
act for me, O God the Lord, for Your name’s sake; because Your mercy
and
loving-kindness are good, O deliver me. |
| 22 | For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded
and
stricken within me. |
| 23 | I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens
and
declines; I toss up and down
and
am shaken off as the locust. |
| 24 | My knees are weak
and
totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt
and
has no fatness. |
| 25 | I have become also a reproach
and
a taunt to others; when they see me, they shake their heads. |
| 26 | Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to Your mercy
and
loving-kindness!— |
| 27 | That they may know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it. |
| 28 | Let them curse, but do You bless. When adversaries arise, let them be put to shame, but let Your servant rejoice. |
| 29 | Let my adversaries be clothed with shame
and
dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace
and
confusion as with a robe. |
| 30 | I will give great praise
and
thanks to the Lord with my mouth; yes,
and
I will praise Him among the multitude. |
| 31 | For He will stand at the right hand of the poor
and
needy, to save him from those who condemn his life. |
Cross references:
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Psalm 109:8 : Acts 1:20.
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Psalm 109:10 : Gen. 4:12.
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Psalm 109:25 : Matt. 26:39.
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