Psalms 109

1 To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. O God of my praise, do not be silent;

To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

2 For, the mouth of the lawless one and the mouth of the deceiver, against me, are open, They have spoken to me with false tongue;

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

3 And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:

Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

4 For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:

For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

5 Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.

They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

6 Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, stand at his right hand;

Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

7 When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;

When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;

Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

9 Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

10 Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;

Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

11 Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;

Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

12 Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;

Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

13 Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;

Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

14 Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;

Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

17 Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him;

As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

18 Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

19 Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on:

Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

20 This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life.

Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

21 But, thou, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me;

But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

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

For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

23 As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

24 My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:

My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

25 So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head.

As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

26 Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness:

Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

27 That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.

So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

28 They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, —Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice;

They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

29 Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame.

Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

30 I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;

I will give the Lord great praise with my mouth; yes, I will give praise to him among all the people.

31 Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.

For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.