Psalms 109
1 For the leader. Of David, a psalm. O God whom I praise, keep not silence;
Hold not thy peace, O Elohim of my praise;
2 for their wicked mouths they have opened against me, they speak to me with tongues that are false,
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.
3 they beset me with words of hatred, and fight without cause against me.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 My love they requite with hostility, while for them I lift up my prayer.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 Evil for good they reward me, and hatred for my love.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 ‘Set over him one who is godless,’ they say, ‘an opponent at his right hand.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 From his trial let him come forth guilty, may his prayer be counted as sin.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Grant that his days may be few, that his office be seized by another.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Grant that his children be fatherless, and that his wife be a widow.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Up and down may his children go begging, expelled from their desolate home.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 May all that he owns be seized by the creditor may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 ‘May none extend to him kindness, or pity his fatherless children.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 His descendants be doomed to destruction! Blotted out be his name in one generation!
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 May his father’s guilt be remembered, and his mother’s sin not blotted out:
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with YHWH; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 on record always before the Lord, and his memory root from the earth;
Let them be before YHWH continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 for he gave no thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and the needy, drove the downhearted to death.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 ‘May the curses he loved light upon him, may the blessings he loathed be afar.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 Like a garment he clothed him with curses; may they pierce to his inwards like water, and cling to his bones like oil.
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.
19 Let them be like the robe he wraps round him, like the belt he wears every day.’
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Be this the reward of my adversaries, of those who speak evil against me.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from YHWH, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But you, Lord my God, be true to your name, deal kindly with me; in your gracious kindness save me.
But do thou for me, O Elohim YHWH, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a lengthening shadow, I am shaken off like a locust.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees totter from fasting, my flesh is shrivelled and spare.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 They heap insults upon me: when they see me, they shake their head.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my God, and save me in your kindness.
Help me, O YHWH my Elohim: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 Teach them that this is your hand, and your own doing, O Lord.
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, YHWH, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, if only you bless. Put my assailants to shame, and make your servant glad.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 My opponents be clothed with dishonour, and wrapped in a robe of shame.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I give thanks to you, Lord, with loud voice, I give praise in the midst of the throng;
I will greatly praise YHWH with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 for he stands by the poor, at his right hand, to save them from those who condemn them.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
