AFV2020 - Psalms - 109

109:1  To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.O God of my praise, do not keep silent,

109:2  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

109:3  And they surrounded me 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 unto 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 be condemned; and let his prayer become sin.

109:8  Let his days be few; let another take his office.

109:9  Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

109:10  Let his children always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their desolate places.

109:11  Let the creditor seize all that is his; and let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

109:12  Let there be none to give mercy to him, nor any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.

109:13  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following, let their name be blotted out.

109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109:15  Let them be always before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth

109:16  Because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the brokenhearted.

109:17  Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come unto him; he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

109:19  Let it be to him as the robe which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is always clothed.

109:20  Let this be the reward of my foes from the LORD, and of them who speak evil against my soul.

109:21  But You, O GOD the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake because Your mercy is good, deliver me,

109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

109:23  As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

109:24  My knees are weak from fasting, and my flesh has become gaunt.

109:25  And I also became a reproach to them when they looked upon Me; they shook their heads.

109:26  Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your steadfast love;

109:27  So that they may know that this is of Your hand; that You, LORD, have done it.

109:28  They will curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let Your servant rejoice.

109:29  Let my accusers be clothed with confusion, and let them wrap themselves in their own shame, as with a cloak.

109:30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude,

109:31  For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.