Psalms - Chapter 109 | American Standard Version

  • 1. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. 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 {cf15i 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; {cf15i 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 {cf15i their bread} out 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 {cf15i 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; {cf15i 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.
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