Psalms - Chapter 109 | New King James Version

  • 1. To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Do 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 lying tongue.
  • 3. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
  • 4. In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.
  • 5. Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
  • 6. Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser {cf2super [95]} stand at his right hand.
  • 7. When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
  • 8. Let his days be few, And let another take his office.
  • 9. Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
  • 10. Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread {cf2super [96]} also from their desolate places.
  • 11. Let 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. Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • 14. Let 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 continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 19. Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
  • 20. Let this be the Lord's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.
  • 21. But You, O God the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
  • 22. For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
  • 23. I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
  • 24. My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
  • 25. I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads.
  • 26. Help me, O Lord my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
  • 27. That they may know that this is Your hand-- That You, Lord, have done it!
  • 28. Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.
  • 29. Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
  • 30. I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.
  • 31. For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.
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