109Psalms 109

PSAL. CIX. / 1 Dauid complayning of his slanderous enemies, vnder the person of Iudas deuoteth them. 16 He sheweth their sinne. 21 Complayning of his owne misery, hee prayeth for helpe. 29 He promiset

1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise.Select Psalms 109:1

2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against mee: they haue spoken against me with a lying tongue.Select Psalms 109:2

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

4For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.Select Psalms 109:4

5And they haue rewarded me euill for good: and hatred for my loue.Select Psalms 109:5

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

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

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

9Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.Select Psalms 109:9

10Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.Select Psalms 109:10

11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoile his labour.Select Psalms 109:11

12Let there be none to extend mercy vnto him: neither let there be any to fauour his fatherlesse children.Select Psalms 109:12

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

14Let the iniquitie of his fathers be remembred with the Lord: and let not the sinne 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 remembred not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poore and needy man: that he might euen slay the broken in heart.Select Psalms 109:16

17As he loued cursing, so let it come vnto him: as hee delighted not in blessing, so let it be farre from him.Select Psalms 109:17

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

19Let it be vnto him as the garment which couereth him: and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.Select Psalms 109:19

20Let this be the reward of mine aduersaries from the Lord: and of them that speake euill against my soule.Select Psalms 109:20

21But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy Names sake: because thy mercie is good: deliuer thou me.Select Psalms 109:21

22For I am poore and needie: and my heart is wounded within me.Select Psalms 109:22

23I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.Select Psalms 109:23

24My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.Select Psalms 109:24

25I became also a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they shaked their heads.Select Psalms 109:25

26Helpe me, O Lord my God: O saue me according to thy mercie.Select Psalms 109:26

27That they may know, that this is thy hand: that thou, Lord, hast done it.Select Psalms 109:27

28Let them curse, but blesse thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy seruant reioyce.Select Psalms 109:28

29Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: and let them couer them selues with their owne confusion, as with a mantle.Select Psalms 109:29

30I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth: yea I will praise him among the multitude.Select Psalms 109:30

31For he shal stand at the right hand of the poore: to saue him from those that condemne his soule.Select Psalms 109:31