Psalms
109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their
bread also out of their desolate places.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil
his labour.
109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their
name be blotted out.
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not
the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor
and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it
come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them
that speak evil against my soul.
109:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy
mercy is good, deliver thou me.
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked
their heads.
109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him
among the multitude.
109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those
that condemn his soul.
