Psalms 109 — ASV

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

109Verse 1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
^{Verse 2}For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
^{Verse 3}They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
^{Verse 4}For my love they are my adversaries:
But I give myself unto prayer.
^{Verse 5}And they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
^{Verse 6}Set thou a wicked man over him;
And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
^{Verse 7}When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;
And let his prayer be turned into sin.
^{Verse 8}Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
^{Verse 9}Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
^{Verse 10}Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
^{Verse 11}Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
^{Verse 12}Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
^{Verse 13}Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
^{Verse 14}Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
^{Verse 15}Let them be before Jehovah continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
^{Verse 16}Because he remembered not to show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
^{Verse 17}Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 19}Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
^{Verse 20}This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
^{Verse 21}But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
^{Verse 22}For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
^{Verse 23}I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
^{Verse 24}My knees are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
^{Verse 25}I am become also a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head.
^{Verse 26}Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
^{Verse 27}That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
^{Verse 28}Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
^{Verse 29}Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
^{Verse 30}I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
^{Verse 31}For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from them that judge his soul.