Psalm Chapter 109 Back NextPsalm 109 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by
David.
{109:1} God of my praise, don't remain silent,
{109:2} for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to 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 adversaries; but I am in prayer.
{109:5} They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
{109:6} Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
{109:7} When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into 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 be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
{109:11} Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
{109:12} Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
{109:13} Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
{109:14} Let the iniquity of his
fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
{109:15} Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the
earth;
{109:16} because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in
heart, to kill them.
{109:17} Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in
blessing, and it was far from him.
{109:18} He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
{109:19} Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
{109:20} This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.
{109:21} But deal with me, Yahweh the
Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
{109:22} for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
{109:23} I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a
locust.
{109:24} My knees are weak through
fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
{109:25} I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
{109:26} Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
{109:27} that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.
{109:28} They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
{109:29} Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
{109:30} I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
{109:31} For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
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