Psalms Chapter 109

109 : 1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise,

109 : 2 for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

109 : 3 They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

109 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries, but I make prayer.

109 : 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

109 : 6 Set thou a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.

109 : 7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, and let his prayer be turned into sin.

109 : 8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

109 : 9 Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

109 : 10 Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.

109 : 11 Let a creditor exact all that he has, and let strangers make spoil of his labor.

109 : 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons.

109 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

109 : 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109 : 15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,

109 : 16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.

109 : 17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

109 : 18 He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.

109 : 19 Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, and for the belt with which he is girded continually.

109 : 20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

109 : 21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake. Because thy loving kindness is good, deliver thou me,

109 : 22 for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

109 : 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

109 : 24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.

109 : 25 I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

109 : 26 Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to thy loving kindness,

109 : 27 that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, Jehovah, have done it.

109 : 28 Let them curse, but bless thou. When they arise, they shall be put to shame, but thy servant shall rejoice.

109 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

109 : 30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

109 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.