Psalms, 109

1. <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

1. Break your silence, O God whom I praise,

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.

2. now that the wicked and deceitful hurl their false accusations at me.

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

3. They assail me with words of hatred; they attack me for no valid cause.

4. For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.

4. They return my friendship with slander, and yet I pray for them.

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

5. They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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

6. Appoint a wicked man against him; find an accuser to repeat this curse:

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

7. "Let him be found guilty when tried; let his own plea condemn him.

8. Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.

8. May his days be numbered, his office be taken by another.

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

9. May his children lose a father and his wife a husband.

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

10. May his children go begging, driven out of their ruined homes.

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

11. May the creditor seize all his belongings and strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.

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

12. Let no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his orphaned children.

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

13. May his posterity be destroyed, their names blotted out in the next generation.

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

14. May his father's evil be remembered before the Lord; may his mother's sin never be effaced.

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

15. May their sins be ever before the Lord, and their memory cut off from the earth."

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

16. For he did not remember to show kindness, but hounded the poor, the needy, and the brokenhearted to their death.

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

17. He loved to curse; may he be cursed. He loathed blessing; may it be far from him.

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.

18. He wrapped himself in cursing; may it soak into his body like water, penetrate his bones like oil.

19. Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

19. May it be like a garment he wears, like the belt he ties around himself.

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

20. May the Lord reward my accusers with this, and others who speak evil of me.

21. But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.

21. But as for me, O God my Lord, for your name's sake, act on my behalf, deliver me, in the goodness of your love.

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

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

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

23. Like an evening shadow, I fade away; like a locust, I am swept away.

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

24. My knees have become weak from fasting, my body is wasted of its substance.

25. I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

25. I have become the butt for the scorn of my foes; people shake their heads at me in derision.

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

26. Help me, O Lord my God, and save me for the sake of your love.

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

27. Let them know that this is your hand, that it is you, Lord, who do this.

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

28. They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack, they will be disgraced; but may your servant rejoice!

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

29. Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor; let them be wrapped in their own shame.

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

30. To the Lord, I will give my thanks; I will praise him in the great assembly.

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

31. He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who condemn him.