To the chief musician, a psalm of David
109
📚✭Do not remain 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 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 📚And they have repaid me evil
for good,
and hatred for my love.
6 📚✭✭Set a wicked man over him,
and let Satan✭ stand at his
right hand.
7 📚When he is judged, let him be condemned✭,
and let his prayer✭ become sin.
8 📚Let his days be few✭, and
let another take
his position✭.
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 also
out of their desolate places.
11 📚✭Let a creditor seize all that
he has,
and let strangers plunder his labour.
12 📚✭Let there be no one to extend
mercy to him,
no one to show favour to his fatherless
children.
13 📚Let his offspring be cut off,
and in the following
generation let their name be
blotted out.
14 📚Let the wickedness of his fathers
be remembered before the LORD,
and let not the sin of his mother be
blotted out.
15 📚Let them continually be 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 kill the heartbroken.
17 📚✭Since he loved cursing,
so let it come to him;
since he did not delight in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
18 📚Since he clothed himself
with cursing as with his garment,
so let it enter into his bowels
like water,
and like oil into his bones.
19 📚Let it be to him like the garment
which covers him,
and like a belt tied around him
continually.
20 📚✭Let this be the
payment to my accusers,
and to those who speak evil against
my soul.
21 📚✭✭But you, O God the Lord,
deal well with
me for your name’s sake.
Rescue me, because your mercy
is good.
22 📚For I am poor
and needy✭,
and my heart is wounded✭
within me.
23 📚I am gone like the shadow✭
when it lengthens.
I am shaken off like a locust.
24 📚My knees are weak through
fasting,
and my flesh is thin and feeble.
25 📚And I became an object
of scorn to them.
When they looked at me
they shook 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 cloak.
30 📚I will greatly praise the LORD
with my mouth;
yes, I will praise him among
the great crowd.
31 📚✭For he stands at the right hand
of the poor,
to save him from those
who condemn him.