1 Do^a not keep silent,
O God of my praise! ‡

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a ^alying tongue. ‡

3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me ^awithout a cause. ‡

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

5 Thus ^athey have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love. ‡

6 Set a wicked man over him,
And let ^aan accuser stand at his right hand. ‡

7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And ^alet his prayer become sin. ‡

8 Let his days be ^afew,
And ^blet another take his office. ‡

9 ^aLet his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow. ‡

10 Let his children¹ continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them¹ seek their bread also from their desolate places. ‡

11 ^aLet the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor. ‡

12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

13 ^aLet his¹ posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^bname be blotted out. ‡

14 ^aLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother ^bbe blotted out. ‡