Psalms 109 — JPSTN
109Verse 1For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;Verse 2For 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 3They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.Verse 4In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.Verse 5And they have laid upon 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 7When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.Verse 8Let his days be few; let another take his charge.Verse 9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.Verse 10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.Verse 11Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.Verse 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.Verse 13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.Verse 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.Verse 15Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.Verse 16Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.Verse 17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.Verse 18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.Verse 19Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'Verse 20This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.Verse 21But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.Verse 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.Verse 23I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.Verse 24My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.Verse 25I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.Verse 26Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;Verse 27That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, LORD, hast done it.Verse 28Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.Verse 29Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.Verse 30I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;Verse 31Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.