Psalm 109:1–15

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

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

They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3  They compassed me about also with words of hatred;

And fought against me cwithout a cause.

4  For my love they dare my adversaries:

But eI give myself unto fprayer.

5  And gthey have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

6  hSet thou a wicked man over ihim:

And klet ||Satan stand klat his right hand.

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

And let nhis prayer become sin.

8  Let his days be few;

And olet another take his ||office.

9  Let phis children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

10  Let his children qbe continually vagabonds, and rbeg:

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

11  Let the extortioner tcatch all that he hath;

And ulet the strangers spoil his labour.

12  Let there be none to wextend mercy unto him:

Neither let there be xany to favour his fatherless children.

13  Let yhis posterity be cut off;

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

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

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

15  Let them be before the Lord continually,

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