Psalm 109:1-31 RSV

[1] Be not silent, O God of my praise! [2] For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. [3] They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. [4] In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them. [5] So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. [6] Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial. [7] When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! [8] May his days be few; may another seize his goods! [9] May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! [10] May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit! [11] May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! [12] Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! [13] May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! [14] May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! [15] Let them be before the LORD continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth! [16] For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death. [17] He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him! [18] He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! [19] May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself! [20] May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! [21] But thou, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name's sake; because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me! [22] For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. [23] I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. [24] My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt. [25] I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads. [26] Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love! [27] Let them know that this is thy hand; thou, O LORD, hast done it! [28] Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad! [29] May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle! [30] With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. [31] For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.