Psalm 109:6–19

⁶Appoint a wicked man against him;

let an accuser bring him to trial.

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

let his prayer be counted as sin!

⁸May his days be few;

may another seize his goods!

⁹May his children be fatherless,

and his wife a widow!

¹⁰May his children wander about and beg;

may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

¹¹May the creditor seize all that he has;

may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

¹²Let there be none to extend kindness to him,

nor any to pity his fatherless children!

¹³May his posterity be cut off;

may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

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

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

¹⁵Let them be before the Lord continually;

and may his memory be cut off from the earth!

¹⁶For he did not remember to show kindness,

but pursued the poor and needy

and the brokenhearted to their death.

¹⁷He loved to curse; let curses come on him!

He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

¹⁸He clothed himself with cursing as his coat,

may it soak into his body like water,

like oil into his bones!

¹⁹May it be like a garment which he wraps round him,

like a belt with which he daily girds himself!