Psalm 109:1-31 AMPC

[1] O God of my praise! Keep not silence, [2] For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me and against me with lying tongues. [3] They have compassed me about also with words of hatred and have fought against me without a cause. [4] In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer. [5] And they have rewarded and laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love. [6] Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand. [7] When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin. [8] Let his days be few; and let another take his office and charge. [9] Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. [10] Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes. [11] Let the creditor and extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor. [12] Let there be none to extend or continue mercy and kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. [13] Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out. [14] Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. [15] Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth!- [16] Because the man did not [earnestly] remember to show mercy, but pursued and persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart [he was ready] to slay. [17] Yes, he loved cursing, and it came [back] upon him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. [18] He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it seeped into his inward [life] like water, and like oil into his bones. [19] Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself and as the girdle with which he is girded continually. [20] Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my life. [21] But You deal with me and act for me, O God the Lord, for Your name's sake; because Your mercy and loving-kindness are good, O deliver me. [22] For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded and stricken within me. [23] I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust. [24] My knees are weak and totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt and has no fatness. [25] I have become also a reproach and a taunt to others; when they see me, they shake their heads. [26] Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to Your mercy and loving-kindness!- [27] That they may know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it. [28] Let them curse, but do You bless. When adversaries arise, let them be put to shame, but let Your servant rejoice. [29] Let my adversaries be clothed with shame and dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace and confusion as with a robe. [30] I will give great praise and thanks to the Lord with my mouth; yes, and I will praise Him among the multitude. [31] For He will stand at the right hand of the poor and needy, to save him from those who condemn his life.