109:1 [To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.] Be not silent, O God of my praise! 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. 109:3 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. 109:4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. 109:5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 109:6 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. 109:7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! 109:8 May his days be few; may another take his office! 109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow! 109:10 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit! 109:11 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! 109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! 109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! 109:16 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. 109:17 He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him! 109:18 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! 109:19 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day! 109:20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! 109:21 But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. 109:23 I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. 109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads. 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! 109:27 Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it! 109:28 Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! 109:29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak! 109:30 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. 109:31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.