^109:1 Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise, ^109:2 because they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. ^109:3 They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

    ^109:4 They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer. ^109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.

    ^109:6 Set a wicked man over him and let an adversary stand at his right hand. ^109:7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty and let his prayer be turned into sin. ^109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office.

    ^109:9 Let his sons be fatherless and his wife a widow. ^109:10 Let his sons be vagabonds and beg and let them seek out of their desolate places. ^109:11 Let a creditor exact all that he has and let strangers make spoil of his labor.

    ^109:12 Let there be none to prolong kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. ^109:13 Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.

    ^109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

    ^109:15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, ^109:16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man and the broken in heart, to kill.

    ^109:17 Yes, he loved cursing and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing and it was far from him.

    ^109:18 He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment and it came into his inward parts like water and like oil into his bones. ^109:19 Let it be to him as the garments with which he covers himself and for the belt with which he is girded continually.

    ^109:20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah and of those who speak evil against my soul.

    ^109:21 But deal with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake. Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me, ^109:22 because I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me.

    ^109:23 I have gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. ^109:24 My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh fails of fatness.

    ^109:25 I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

    ^109:26 Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to your loving kindness, ^109:27 that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Jehovah, have done it.

    ^109:28 Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

    ^109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

    ^109:30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.^109:31 Because he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.