The Psalms

Psalm 109

For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.

 ^109:1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

 ^109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:

 They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

 ^109:3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,

 And fought against me without a cause.

 ^109:4For my love they are my adversaries:

 But I give myself unto prayer.

 ^109:5And they have rewarded me evil for good,

 And hatred for my love.

 ^109:6Set thou a wicked man over him;

 And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

 ^109:7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;

 And let his prayer be turned into sin.

 ^109:8Let his days be few;

 And let another take his office.

 ^109:9Let his children be fatherless,

 And his wife a widow.

 ^109:10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;

 And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

 ^109:11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;

 And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

 ^109:12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;

 Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

 ^109:13Let his posterity be cut off;

 In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

 ^109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;

 And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

 ^109:15Let them be before Jehovah continually,

 That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

 ^109:16Because he remembered not to show kindness,

 But persecuted the poor and needy man,

 And the broken in heart, to slay them.

 ^109:17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;

 And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

 ^109:18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,

 And it came into his inward parts like water,

 And like oil into his bones.

 ^109:19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,

 And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

 ^109:20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,

 And of them that speak evil against my soul.

 ^109:21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake:

 Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

 ^109:22For I am poor and needy,

 And my heart is wounded within me.

 ^109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:

 I am tossed up and down as the locust.

 ^109:24My knees are weak through fasting;

 And my flesh faileth of fatness.

 ^109:25I am become also a reproach unto them:

 When they see me, they shake their head.

 ^109:26Help me, O Jehovah my God;

 Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

 ^109:27That they may know that this is thy hand;

 That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

 ^109:28Let them curse, but bless thou:

 When they arise, they shall be put to shame,

 But thy servant shall rejoice.

 ^109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,

 And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

 ^109:30I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;

 Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

 ^109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,

 To save him from them that judge his soul.