Psa.|109:Title|-|To the choir director. |a|Of David. A Psalm
Psa.|109:1|-||1|O God of my praise, do not be silent;
Psa.|109:2|-|For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are openedagainst me;
They speak to me with a lying tongue.
Psa.|109:3|-|And with words of hatred they have surrounded meAnd have fought against me without cause.
Psa.|109:4|-|In return for my love they have become my adversaries,But I am all prayer.
Psa.|109:5|-|And they have set against me evil in return for goodAnd hatred in return for my love.
Psa.|109:6|-|Appoint a wicked man over him,And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
Psa.|109:7|-|When he is judged, let him come forth wicked;And let his prayer be counted as sin.
Psa.|109:8|-|May his days be few;|a|May another take his office.
Psa.|109:9|-|May his children be orphans,And his wife a widow.
Psa.|109:10|-|And may his children wander all about and beg,And may they seek food far from their desolated ruins.
Psa.|109:11|-|May the creditor seize all that he has,And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
Psa.|109:12|-|May there be no one to extend him mercy,Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
Psa.|109:13|-|May his posterity be cut off;In the generation following may |1|his name be blotted out.
Psa.|109:14|-|May his father’s iniquity be remembered before Jehovah,And may his mother’s sin not be blotted out.
Psa.|109:15|-|May they be before Jehovah continually,So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Psa.|109:16|-|Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted,
To put them to death.
Psa.|109:17|-|Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him;And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
Psa.|109:18|-|And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment,So it came into his inward parts like water
And into his bones like oil.
Psa.|109:19|-|Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself,And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
Psa.|109:20|-|This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversariesAnd for those who speak evil against my soul.
Psa.|109:21|-|But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me,For Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
Psa.|109:22|-|For I am poor and needy,And my heart is wounded within me.
Psa.|109:23|-|I am gone like a shadow that declines;I am shaken off like the locust.
Psa.|109:24|-|My knees wobble through fasting,And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
Psa.|109:25|-|I have also become a |a|reproach to them:When they see me, they |b|shake their heads.
Psa.|109:26|-|Help me, O Jehovah my God;Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
Psa.|109:27|-|And they will know that this is Your hand,That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
Psa.|109:28|-|Let them curse, but You bless;When they arise, they will be put to shame,
And Your servant will rejoice.
Psa.|109:29|-|May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation,And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
Psa.|109:30|-|I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth,And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
Psa.|109:31|-|For He stands at the right hand of the needyTo save him from those who judge his soul.
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