PS-109:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy

peace, O God of

my praise;

PS-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.

PS-109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and

fought against

me without a cause.

PS-109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself

unto] prayer.

PS-109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for

my love.

PS-109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at

his right

hand.

PS-109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let

his prayer

become sin.

PS-109:8 Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.

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

PS-109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:

let them seek

[their bread] also out of their desolate places.

PS-109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let

the strangers

spoil his labour.

PS-109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither

let there be any

to favour his fatherless children.

PS-109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation

following let

their name be blotted out.

PS-109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the

LORD; and let

not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

PS-109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may

cut off the

memory of them from the earth.

PS-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.

PS-109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he

delighted not in

blessing, so let it be far from him.

PS-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.

PS-109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him,

 and for a

girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

PS-109:20 [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from

the LORD, and of

them that speak evil against my soul.

PS-109:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's

sake: because thy

mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.

PS-109:22 For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded

within me.

PS-109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am

tossed up and down

as the locust.

PS-109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh

faileth of fatness.

PS-109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked

upon me they

shaked their heads.

PS-109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy

mercy:

PS-109:27 That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that]

thou, LORD, hast

done it.

PS-109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let

them be

ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

PS-109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let

them cover

themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

PS-109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I

will praise him

among the multitude.

PS-109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to

save [him] from

those that condemn his soul.

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