Psalms 109 — KJVCP

To 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 the deceitful are opened against me:
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
^{Verse 3}They 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 Satan stand at his right hand.
^{Verse 7}When he shall be judged, let him be condemned:
And let his prayer become 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 continually vagabonds, and beg:
Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
^{Verse 11}Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let the strangers spoil his labour.
^{Verse 12}Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
Neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
^{Verse 13}Let his posterity be cut off;
And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
^{Verse 14}Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
^{Verse 15}Let them be before the Lord continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
^{Verse 16}Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the broken in heart.
^{Verse 17}As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him:
As he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
^{Verse 18}As 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.
^{Verse 19}Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
And for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
^{Verse 20}Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.^{Verse 21}But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
Because thy mercy 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 became also a reproach unto them:
When they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
^{Verse 26}Help me, O Lord my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:
^{Verse 27}That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Lord, hast done it.
^{Verse 28}Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
^{Verse 29}Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
^{Verse 30}I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
^{Verse 31}For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those that condemn his soul.