- 109Hold not your peace, O God of my praise, 2for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3They encompassed me about. They spoke against me also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 4And notwithstanding my love, they are my adversaries, yet I will continue in prayer for them. 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- 6Set a wicked man over them, and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7When they shall be judged, let them be condemned, and let their prayer become sin. 8Let their days be few. Let another take their office. 9Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows. 10Let their children be continually vagabonds and beg. Let them seek also out of their desolate places. 11Let the extortioner catch all that they have, and let the stranger spoil their labor. 12Let there be none to extend mercy unto them, neither let there be any to favor their fatherless children. 13Let their posterity be cut off. In the generation following, let their names be blotted out. 14Let the iniquity of their fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of their mothers be blotted out. 15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, 16because they remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that they might even slay the broken in heart. 17As they loved cursing, so let it come upon them. As they did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from them. 18As they clothed themselves with cursing as with their garments, so let it come into their inward parts like water, and like oil into their bones. 19Let it be unto them as a garment covers them, and for a belt with which they are girded continually. 20This shall be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord and of them who speak evil against my soul.
- 21But do deliver me, O Lord my God, for your name's sake, because your mercy is good; therefore, deliver me. 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness. 25I became also a reproach unto them. When they looked upon me, they shook their heads. 26Help me, O Lord my God. O save me according to your mercy, 27that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Lord, have done it. 28Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice. 29Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle. 30I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth, yea, I will praise him among the multitude. 31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psalm 109
To the chief musician, a psalm of David.