1  tBe not silent, O uGod of my praise!

2  For wicked and vdeceitful mouths are opened against me,

speaking against me with lying tongues.

3  They encircle me with words of hate,

and attack me wwithout cause.

4  In return for my love they xaccuse me,

but I ygive myself to prayer.1

5  So they zreward me evil for good,

and hatred for my love.

6  aAppoint a wicked man bagainst him;

let an accuser stand cat his right hand.

7  When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;

let his dprayer be counted as sin!

8  May his edays be few;

may fanother take his goffice!

9  May his hchildren be fatherless

and his wife a widow!

10  May his children iwander about and beg,

jseeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!

11  May kthe creditor seize all that he has;

may kstrangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

12  Let there be none to lextend kindness to him,

nor any to mpity his fatherless children!

13  May his nposterity be cut off;

may his oname be blotted out in the second generation!

14  May pthe iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,

and let not the sin of his mother be qblotted out!

15  rLet them be before the Lord continually,

that he may scut off the memory of them from the earth!

16  For he did not remember to show kindness,

but pursued tthe poor and needy

and uthe brokenhearted, to put them to death.

17  vHe loved to curse; let curses come2 upon him!

He did not delight in blessing; may it be far3 from him!

18  He wclothed himself with cursing as his coat;

may it xsoak4 into his body like water,

like oil into his bones!

19  May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,

like a belt that he puts on every day!

20  May this be the reward of my yaccusers from the Lord,

of those who speak evil against my life!