Psalms 109
1 “To the chief musician, by David, a psalm.” O God of my praise, do not keep silence.
| למנצח לדוד מזמור אלהי תהלתי אל תחרש׃ |
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken with me with the tongue of falsehood.
| כי פי רשע ופי מרמה עלי פתחו דברו אתי לשון שקר׃ |
3 Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me, and they fight against me without a cause.
| ודברי שנאה סבבוני וילחמוני חנם׃ |
4 In recompense for my love are they my accusers, while I have nothing but prayer.
| תחת אהבתי ישטנוני ואני תפלה׃ |
5 And they impose evil on me in recompense for good, and hatred in lieu of my love.
| וישימו עלי רעה תחת טובה ושנאה תחת אהבתי׃ |
6 Appoint thou a wicked man over him: and let an accuser stand at his right hand.
| הפקד עליו רשע ושטן יעמד על ימינו׃ |
7 When he is to be judged, let him go forth guilty, and let his prayer become sin.
| בהשפטו יצא רשע ותפלתו תהיה לחטאה׃ |
8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
| יהיו ימיו מעטים פקדתו יקח אחר׃ |
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
| יהיו בניו יתומים ואשתו אלמנה׃ |
10 Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek [their bread] out of their ruined places.
| ונוע ינועו בניו ושאלו ודרשו מחרבותיהם׃ |
11 Let the creditor lay snares after all that he hath, and let strangers plunder his labor.
| ינקש נושה לכל אשר לו ויבזו זרים יגיעו׃ |
12 Let him have none that extendeth kindness, and let there be none that is gracious to his fatherless children.
| אל יהי לו משך חסד ואל יהי חונן ליתומיו׃ |
13 Let his posterity be cut off: in another generation let their name be blotted out.
| יהי אחריתו להכרית בדור אחר ימח שמם׃ |
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.
| יזכר עון אבתיו אל יהוה וחטאת אמו אל תמח׃ |
15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off from the earth their memory.
| יהיו נגד יהוה תמיד ויכרת מארץ זכרם׃ |
16 For the reason that he remembered not to show kindness; but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the grieved in heart to put him to death.
| יען אשר לא זכר עשות חסד וירדף איש עני ואביון ונכאה לבב למותת׃ |
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come over him: and as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
| ויאהב קללה ותבואהו ולא חפץ בברכה ותרחק ממנו׃ |
18 And he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it cometh like water within him, and like oil into his bones.
| וילבש קללה כמדו ותבא כמים בקרבו וכשמן בעצמותיו׃ |
19 Let it be unto him as a garment in which he wrappeth himself, and for a girdle let him be continually girded with it.
| תהי לו כבגד יעטה ולמזח תמיד יחגרה׃ |
20 Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, and of those that speak evil against my soul.
| זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על נפשי׃ |
21 But thou, O Eternal Lord, deal with me for the sake of thy name: because thy kindness is good, deliver thou me.
| ואתה יהוה אדני עשה אתי למען שמך כי טוב חסדך הצילני׃ |
22 For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
| כי עני ואביון אנכי ולבי חלל בקרבי׃ |
23 Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.
| כצל כנטותו נהלכתי ננערתי כארבה׃ |
24 My knees stumble through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.
| ברכי כשלו מצום ובשרי כחש משמן׃ |
25 And I am become a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.
| ואני הייתי חרפה להם יראוני יניעון ראשם׃ |
26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy kindness:
| עזרני יהוה אלהי הושיעני כחסדך׃ |
27 That they may know that this is thy hand: that thou, Lord, hast truly done it.
| וידעו כי ידך זאת אתה יהוה עשיתה׃ |
28 Let them then curse, but do thou bless: when they arise, let them be made ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
| יקללו המה ואתה תברך קמו ויבשו ועבדך ישמח׃ |
29 Let my accusers be clothed with confusion, and let them wrap themselves, as with a mantle, in their own shame.
| ילבשו שוטני כלמה ויעטו כמעיל בשתם׃ |
30 I will thank the Lord greatly with my mouth, and in the midst of many will I praise him.
| אודה יהוה מאד בפי ובתוך רבים אהללנו׃ |
31 For he ever standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.
| כי יעמד לימין אביון להושיע משפטי נפשו׃ |
