Psalms 109

1[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Hold not thy 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. {of the deceitful: Heb. of deceit} {are opened: Heb. have opened themselves}● 3They 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 Satan stand at his right hand. {Satan: or, an adversary}● 7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. {be condemned: Heb. go out guilty, or, wicked}● 8Let his days be few; {and} let another take his office. {office: or, charge}● 9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.● 10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.● 11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.● 12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.● 13Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.● 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.● 15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.● 16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.● 17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.● 18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. {into his bowels: Heb. within him}● 19Let it be unto him as the garment {which} covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.● 20{Let} this {be} the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.● 21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy {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 became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they shaked their heads.● 26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:● 27That they may know that this {is} thy hand; {that} thou, LORD, hast done it.● 28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.● 29Let mine 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. {those...: Heb. the judges of}●