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.