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. |
109:3 And they surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. |
109:4 In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer. |
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love. |
109:6 Set a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand, |
109:7 When he is judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer become sin. |
109:8 Let his days be few; let another take his office. |
109:9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. |
109:10 Let his children always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their desolate places. |
109:11 Let the creditor seize all that is his; and let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. |
109:12 Let there be none to give mercy to him, nor any to be gracious unto his fatherless children. |
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following, let their name 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 always before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth |
109:16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the brokenhearted. |
109:17 Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come unto him; he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. |
109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. |
109:19 Let it be to him as the robe which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is always clothed. |
109:20 Let this be the reward of my foes from the LORD, and of them who speak evil against my soul. |
109:21 But You, O GOD the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake because Your mercy is good, deliver me, |
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. |
109:23 As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust. |
109:24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my flesh has become gaunt. |
109:25 And I also became a reproach to them when they looked upon Me; they shook their heads. |
109:26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your steadfast love; |
109:27 So that they may know that this is of Your hand; that You, LORD, have done it. |
109:28 They will curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let Your servant rejoice. |
109:29 Let my accusers be clothed with confusion, and let them wrap themselves in their own shame, as with a cloak. |
109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude, |
109:31 For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul. |