| 1 | (Psalm 109 For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.)Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; |
| 2 | For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue. |
| 3 | They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. |
| 4 | For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself unto] prayer. |
| 5 | And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love. |
| 6 | Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand. |
| 7 | When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin. |
| 8 | Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office. |
| 9 | Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. |
| 10 | Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places. |
| 11 | Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor. |
| 12 | Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. |
| 13 | Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out. |
| 14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
| 15 | Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth; |
| 16 | Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them]. |
| 17 | Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. |
| 18 | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones. |
| 19 | Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually. |
| 20 | This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul. |
| 21 | But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name`s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me; |
| 22 | For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. |
| 23 | I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. |
| 24 | My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness. |
| 25 | I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head. |
| 26 | Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness: |
| 27 | That they may know that this is thy hand; [That] thou, Jehovah, hast done it. |
| 28 | Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice. |
| 29 | Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. |
| 30 | I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude. |
| 31 | For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. |
