Ps-109
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v1
Be not silent, O God of my praise!
v2
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
v3
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
v4
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
v5
So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
v6
Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
v7
When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
v8
May his days be few; may another take his office!
v9
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
v10
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
v11
May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
v12
Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
v13
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
v14
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
v15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
v16
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
v17
He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!
v18
He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
v19
May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!
v20
May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!
v21
But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
v22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
v23
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
v24
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
v25
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
v26
Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!
v27
Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!
v28
Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
v29
May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
v30
With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
v31
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.