109:1  Do not keep silent,
O God of my praise!

109:2  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

109:3  They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.

109:4  In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.

109:5  Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

109:6  Set a wicked man over him,
And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

109:7  When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

109:8  Let his days be few,
And let another take his office.

109:9  Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.

109:10  Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

109:11  Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.

109:12  Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor 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 before the LORD,
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109:15  Let them be continually before the LORD,
That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

109:16  Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the broken in heart.

109:17  As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.

109:19  Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

109:20  Let this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

109:21  But You, O GOD the Lord,
Deal 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  I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.

109:24  My knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

109:25  I also have become a reproach to them;
When they look at me, they shake their heads.

109:26  Help me, O LORD my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,

109:27  That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, LORD, have done it!

109:28  Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let Your servant rejoice.

109:29  Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

109:30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
Yes, 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 him.