Psalms Chapter 109

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

109 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

109 : 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

109 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.

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

109 : 6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

109 : 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

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

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

109 : 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

109 : 11 Let the extortionist catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.

109 : 12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

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

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

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

109 : 16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

109 : 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

109 : 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

109 : 19 Let it be to him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.

109 : 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

109 : 21 But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you 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 became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.

109 : 26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:

109 : 27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

109 : 28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.

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

109 : 30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

109 : 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.