Psalm 109

Psalm 109

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

^1aHold not thy peace, ^bO God of my praise;

²For the mouth of the wicked and the ^†mouth of the deceitful ^†are opened against me:

They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

³They compassed me about also with words of hatred;

And fought against me ^cwithout a cause.

⁴For my love they ^dare my adversaries:

But ^eI give myself unto ^fprayer.

⁵And ^gthey have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

^6hSet thou a wicked man over ⁱhim:

And ^klet ^||Satan stand ^klat his right hand.

^7mWhen he shall be judged, let him ^†be condemned:

And let ⁿhis prayer become sin.

⁸Let his days be few;

And ^olet another take his ^||office.

⁹Let ^phis children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children ^qbe continually vagabonds, and ^rbeg:

Let them seek ^stheir bread also out of their desolate places.

¹¹Let the extortioner ^tcatch all that he hath;

And ^ulet the strangers spoil his labour.

¹²Let there be none to ^wextend mercy unto him:

Neither let there be ^xany to favour his fatherless children.

¹³Let ^yhis posterity be cut off;

And in the generation following let ^ztheir name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let ^athe iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord;

And let not the sin of his mother ^bbe blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before the Lord continually,

^cThat he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,

But persecuted ^dthe poor and needy man,

That he might even slay the ^ebroken in heart.

^17fAs he loved cursing, so let it come unto him:

As he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

¹⁸As ^ghe clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,

So let it ^hcome ^†into his bowels like water,

And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,

And for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰Let this be the reward of ⁱmine adversaries from the Lord,

And of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But do thou for me, O God the Lord, ^jfor thy name’s sake:

^kBecause thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

²²For I am ^dpoor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone ^llike the shadow when it declineth:

I am ^mtossed up and down ⁿas the locust.

^24oMy knees are weak through fasting;

And my flesh ^pfaileth of fatness.

²⁵I became also ^qa reproach unto them:

When they looked upon me ^rthey shaked their heads.

^26sHelp me, O Lord my God:

O save me according to thy mercy:

²⁷That they may know that this is thy hand;

That thou, Lord, hast done it.

^28tLet them curse, but bless thou:

When they arise, let them be ashamed; but let ^uthy servant rejoice.

²⁹Let ^vmine ^xadversaries ^wbe clothed with shame,

And let them ^xcover themselves with their own ^wconfusion, as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;

Yea, ^yI will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he shall stand ^zat the right hand of the poor,

To save him ^†from those that condemn his soul.