Psalms - Chapter 109 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!
  • 2. For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
  • 3. They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
  • 4. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
  • 5. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
  • 6. Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
  • 7. When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
  • 8. May his days be few; may another take his office!
  • 9. May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
  • 10. May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
  • 11. May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
  • 12. Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
  • 13. May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
  • 14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
  • 15. Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
  • 16. For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
  • 17. He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!
  • 18. He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
  • 19. May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!
  • 20. May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!
  • 21. But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
  • 22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
  • 23. I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
  • 24. My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
  • 25. I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
  • 26. Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!
  • 27. Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!
  • 28. Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
  • 29. May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
  • 30. With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
  • 31. For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
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