Psalms 109

1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;● 2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.● 3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.● 4For my love they are my adversaries: But I `give myself unto' prayer.● 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.● 6Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.● 7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.● 8Let his days be few; `And' let another take his office.● 9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.● 10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek `their bread' out of their desolate places.● 11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.● 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.● 13Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.● 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.● 15Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;● 16Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay `them'.● 17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.● 18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.● 19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.● 20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.● 21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;● 22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.● 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.● 24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.● 25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.● 26Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:● 27That they may know that this is thy hand; `That' thou, Jehovah, hast done it.● 28Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.● 29Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.● 30I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.● 31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. Psalm 110 A Psalm of David.●