Psalm 109:1-31 ASV
[1] Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; [2] For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue. [3] They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. [4] For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer. [5] And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love. [6] Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand. [7] When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into 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 be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their breadout of their desolate places. [11] Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor. [12] Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. [13] Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out. [14] Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. [15] Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth; [16] Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them. [17] Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. [18] He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones. [19] Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually. [20] This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul. [21] But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me; [22] For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. [23] I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. [24] My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness. [25] I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head. [26] Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness: [27] That they may know that this is thy hand; That thou, Jehovah, hast done it. [28] Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice. [29] Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. [30] I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude. [31] For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.
