109Psalms 109

1Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;Select Psalms 109:1

2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.Select Psalms 109:2

3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.Select Psalms 109:3

4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.Select Psalms 109:4

5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.Select Psalms 109:5

6Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.Select Psalms 109:6

7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.Select Psalms 109:7

8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.Select Psalms 109:8

9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.Select Psalms 109:9

10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.Select Psalms 109:10

11Let the extortionist catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.Select Psalms 109:11

12Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.Select Psalms 109:12

13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.Select Psalms 109:13

14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.Select Psalms 109:14

15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.Select Psalms 109:15

16Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.Select Psalms 109:16

17As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.Select Psalms 109:17

18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.Select Psalms 109:18

19Let it be to him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.Select Psalms 109:19

20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.Select Psalms 109:20

21But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you me.Select Psalms 109:21

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.Select Psalms 109:22

23I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.Select Psalms 109:23

24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness.Select Psalms 109:24

25I became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.Select Psalms 109:25

26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:Select Psalms 109:26

27That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.Select Psalms 109:27

28Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.Select Psalms 109:28

29Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.Select Psalms 109:29

30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude.Select Psalms 109:30

31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.Select Psalms 109:31