109:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Don't hold your peace, O God of my praise;
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit they have opened against me: They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They have surrounded me also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
109:4 In return for my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself to] prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
109:6 Set a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.
109:8 Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office.
109:9 Let his sons be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
109:10 Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Yahweh; And don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
109:16 Because he did not remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them].
109:17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
109:19 Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, And for the belt with which he is girded continually.
109:20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, And of those who speak evil against my soul.
109:21 But deal with me, O Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake: Because your loving-kindness is good, deliver me;
109:22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded inside me.
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
109:25 I have also become a reproach to them: When they see me, they shake their head.
109:26 Help me, O Yahweh my God; Oh save me according to your loving-kindness:
109:27 That they may know that this is your hand; [That] you, Yahweh, have done it.
109:28 Let them curse, but you bless: When they arise, they will be put to shame, But your slave will rejoice.
109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
109:30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth; Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
109:31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.