Psalms 109 — TOJB

109Verse 1(For the one directing. Of Dovid. Mizmor)1 Hold not Thy peace, O Elohei tehillati;
^{Verse 2}For the mouth of the rasha and the mouth of the mirmah
are opened against me;
they have spoken against me with a leshon sheker (a lying tongue).
^{Verse 3}They surrounded me also with divrei sinah (words of hatred);
and attacked me without cause.
^{Verse 4}In return for my ahavah they are my adversaries;
but I give myself unto tefillah (prayer).
^{Verse 5}Thus they have laid upon me ra'ah for tovah,
and sinah for my ahavah.^{Verse 6}Set Thou a rasha (wicked man) over him;
and let Satan (the Accuser) stand at his yamin (right hand).
^{Verse 7}When he shall be tried, let him be in the judgment condemned;
and let his tefillah (prayer) become sin.
^{Verse 8}Let his yamim be few;
and let another take his pekuddah.^{+
Verse 9}Let his banim be yetomim,
and his isha an almanah.
^{Verse 10}Let his banim be continually vagabonds, and beg;
let them seek from their ruins.
^{Verse 11}Let the nosheh (creditor) seize all that he hath;
and let the zarim (strangers) plunder his labor.
^{Verse 12}Let there be none to extend chesed unto him;
neither let there be any to favor his yetomim.
^{Verse 13}Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the dor acher (generation following) let their shem be blotted out.
^{Verse 14}Let the avon of his avot be remembered before Hashem;
and let not the chattat immo be blotted out.
^{Verse 15}Let them be before Hashem tamid,
that He may cut off the memory of them from ha'aretz.^{Verse 16}Because he remembered not to show chesed,
but persecuted the ish oni and the evyon,
that he might even slay the nikheh levav (broken-hearted person).
^{Verse 17}As he loved kelalah (cursing),
so it came on him; as he delighted not in brocha (blessing),
so it was far from him.
^{Verse 18}As he clothed himself with kelalah as with his garment,
so let it come into his inward parts like mayim,
and like shemen into his atzmot.
^{Verse 19}Let it be unto him like a beged which covereth him,
and for a belt wherewith he is girded tamid (continually).
^{Verse 20}This is the reward of mine adversaries from Hashem,
and of them that speak rah against my nefesh.^{Verse 21}But Thou O Hashem Adonoi, do with me for the sake of Thy Name;
because Thy chesed is tov, deliver Thou me.
^{Verse 22}For I am oni and evyon,
and my lev is wounded within me.
^{Verse 23}I am gone like a lengthening tzel (shadow);
I am shaken off like the arbeh.
^{Verse 24}My knees are weak from a tzom;
and my basar faileth of fatness.
^{Verse 25}I became also a cherpah (reproach) unto them;
when they looked upon me, they shaked their heads.^{Verse 26}Help me, O Hashem Elohai;
O hoshi'eini (save me) according to Thy chesed;
^{Verse 27}That they may know that this is Thy Yad;
that Thou, Hashem, hast done it.
^{Verse 28}Let them make kelalah (curse), but do Thou make brocha;
when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let Thy eved rejoice.
^{Verse 29}Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own shame, as with a me'il (cloak).
^{Verse 30}I will greatly praise Hashem with my mouth;
and, I will praise Him among the multitude.
^{Verse 31}For He shall stand at the yamin (right hand) of the evyon (needy),
to save him from those that judge with condemnation his nefesh.⁺