Psalm 109

Psalm 109

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Do ^anot keep silent,

O God of my praise!

²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful

Have opened against me;

They have spoken against me with a ^blying tongue.

³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,

And fought against me ^cwithout a cause.

⁴In return for my love they are my accusers,

But I give myself to prayer.

⁵Thus ^dthey have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him,

And let ^ean ¹accuser stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty,

And ^flet his prayer become sin.

⁸Let his days be ^gfew,

And ^hlet another take his office.

⁹ⁱLet his children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children ²continually be vagabonds, and beg;

Let them ³seek their bread also from their desolate places.

^11jLet the creditor seize all that he has,

And let strangers plunder his labor.

¹²Let there be none to extend mercy to him,

Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

^13kLet his ⁴posterity be cut off,

And in the generation following let their ^lname be blotted out.

^14mLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,

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

¹⁵Let them be continually before the Lord,

That He may ^ocut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy,

But persecuted the poor and needy man,

That he might even slay the ^pbroken in heart.

^17qAs he loved cursing, so let it come to him;

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

¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,

So let it ^renter his body like water,

And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,

And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

²⁰Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers,

And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹But You, O God the Lord,

Deal with me for Your name’s sake;

Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.

²²For I am poor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone ^slike a shadow when it lengthens;

I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My ^tknees are weak through fasting,

And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

²⁵I also have become ^ua reproach to them;

When they look at me, ^vthey shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God!

Oh, save me according to Your mercy,

^27wThat they may know that this is Your hand—

That You, Lord, have done it!

^28xLet them curse, but You bless;

When they arise, let them be ashamed,

But let ^yYour servant rejoice.

^29zLet my accusers be clothed with shame,

And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;

Yes, ^aI will praise Him among the multitude.

³¹For ^bHe shall stand at the right hand of the poor,

To save him from those ⁵who condemn him.