109:1 O GOD of my praise! Keep not silence, |
109:2 For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me {and} against me with lying tongues. |
109:3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred and have fought against me without a cause. |
109:4 In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer. |
109:5 And they have rewarded {and} laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
109:6 Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand. |
109:7 When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin. |
109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office {and} charge. |
109:9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. |
109:10 Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread {and} be driven far from their ruined homes. |
109:11 Let the creditor {and} extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor. |
109:12 Let there be none to extend {or} continue mercy {and} kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. |
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out. |
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
109:15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth!-- |
109:16 Because the man did not [earnestly] remember to show mercy, but pursued {and} persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart [he was ready] to slay. |
109:17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came [back] upon him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. |
109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it seeped into his inward [life] like water, and like oil into his bones. |
109:19 Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself and as the girdle with which he is girded continually. |
109:20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my life. |
109:21 But You deal with me {and} act for me, O God the Lord, for Your name's sake; because Your mercy {and} loving-kindness are good, O deliver me. |
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded {and} stricken within me. |
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens {and} declines; I toss up and down {and} am shaken off as the locust. |
109:24 My knees are weak {and} totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt {and} has no fatness. |
109:25 I have become also a reproach {and} a taunt to others; when they see me, they shake their heads. |
109:26 Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to Your mercy {and} loving-kindness!-- |
109:27 That they may know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it. |
109:28 Let them curse, but do You bless. When adversaries arise, let them be put to shame, but let Your servant rejoice. |
109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame {and} dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace {and} confusion as with a robe. |
109:30 I will give great praise {and} thanks to the Lord with my mouth; yes, {and} I will praise Him among the multitude. |
109:31 For He will stand at the right hand of the poor {and} needy, to save him from those who condemn his life. |