Psalm 109

¹Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

³They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

⁴For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself untoprayer.

⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set thou a wicked man over him: and let an adversary stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; and let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸Let his days be few; andlet another take his office.

⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their breadout of their desolate places.

¹¹Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

¹²Let there be none to extend mercy unto him; neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

¹³Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay them.

¹⁷Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the raiment

¹⁹wherewith he covereth himself, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰This is the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But deal thou with me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me,

²²For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵I am become also a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy:

²⁷That they may know that this is thy hand; thatthou, LORD, hast done it.

²⁸Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, they shall be ashamed, but thy servant shall rejoice.

²⁹Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonour, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.

³⁰I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he shall stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.