Psalm 109:1-31 NKJV

[1] Do not keep silent, O God of my praise! [2] For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. [3] They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. [4] In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer. [5] Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love. [6] Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand. [7] When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin. [8] Let his days be few, And let another take his office. [9] Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. [10] Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. [11] Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor. [12] Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. [13] Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out. [14] Let 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 continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth; [16] Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart. [17] As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. [18] As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones. [19] Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually. [20] Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person. [21] But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me. [22] For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. [23] I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust. [24] My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness. [25] I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads. [26] Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy, [27] That they may know that this is Your hand- That You, LORD, have done it! [28] Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice. [29] Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle. [30] I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude. [31] For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.