109:1 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,
109:2 for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
109:3 With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
109:4 In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
109:5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
109:6 Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
109:8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
109:10 May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
109:11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
109:12 May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
109:13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
109:15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
109:16 For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
109:17 He loved to pronounce a curse–may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing–may it be far from him.
109:18 He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
109:19 May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
109:20 May this be the LORD’S payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
109:21 But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
109:24 My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
109:26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.
109:27 Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O LORD, have done it.
109:28 They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
109:29 My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
109:30 With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.
109:31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.
109:1 O God of my praise, do not be silent;
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened / against me; / They speak to me with a lying tongue.
109:3 And with words of hatred they have surrounded me / And have fought against me without cause.
109:4 In return for my love they have become my adversaries, / But I am all prayer.
109:5 And they have set against me evil in return for good / And hatred in return for my love.
109:6 Appoint a wicked man over him, / And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth wicked; / And let his prayer be counted as sin.
109:8 May his days be few; / May another take his office.
109:9 May his children be orphans, / And his wife a widow.
109:10 And may his children wander all about and beg, / And may they seek food far from their desolated ruins.
109:11 May the creditor seize all that he has, / And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
109:12 May there be no one to extend him mercy, / Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
109:13 May his posterity be cut off; / In the generation following may his name be blotted out.
109:14 May his fathers iniquity be remembered before Jehovah, / And may his mother s sin not be blotted out.
109:15 May they be before Jehovah continually, / So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
109:16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, / But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted, / To put them to death.
109:17 Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him; / And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
109:18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment, / So it came into his inward parts like water / And into his bones like oil.
109:19 Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself, / And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
109:20 This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversaries / And for those who speak evil against my soul.
109:21 But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me, / For Your name s sake; / Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
109:22 For I am poor and needy, / And my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I am gone like a shadow that declines; / I am shaken off like the locust.
109:24 My knees wobble through fasting, / And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
109:25 I have also become a reproach to them: / When they see me, they shake their heads.
109:26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; / Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
109:27 And they will know that this is Your hand, / That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
109:28 Let them curse, but You bless; / When they arise, they will be put to shame, / And Your servant will rejoice.
109:29 May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation, / And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
109:30 I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth, / And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
109:31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy / To save him from those who judge his soul.