Psalms 109
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| v | JPS1917 |
|---|---|
| 1 | For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence; |
| 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 compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. |
| 4 | In return for my love they are my adversaries; But I am all prayer. |
| 5 | And they have laid upon 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 go forth condemned; And let his prayer be turned into sin. |
| 8 | Let his days be few; Let another take his charge. |
| 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 creditor distrain all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labour. |
| 12 | Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to be gracious unto 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 brought to remembrance unto 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 that he remembered not to do kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart he was ready to slay. |
| 17 | Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him. |
| 18 | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, And it is come into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones. |
| 19 | Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.' |
| 20 | This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, And they that speak evil against my soul. |
| 21 | But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; Because Thy mercy 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 lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust. |
| 24 | My knees totter through fasting; And my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness. |
| 25 | I am become also a taunt unto them; When they see me, they shake their head. |
| 26 | Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy; |
| 27 | That they may know that this is Thy hand; That Thou, LORD, 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 | Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, And shall put on their own shame as a robe. |
| 30 | I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; Yea, I will praise Him among the multitude; |
| 31 | Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. |