RSV Psalms 109 Chapter
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 beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.
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 bring him to trial.
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 seize his goods!
109:9
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
109:10
May his children wander about and beg;may they be driven out of 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;and may his memory be cut off from the earth!
109:16
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.
109:17
He loved to curse;let curses come on him! He did not like 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 which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!
109:20
May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!
109:21
But thou, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name's sake;because thy 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.
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 thy steadfast love!
109:27
Let them know that this is thy hand;thou, O LORD, hast done it!
109:28
Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame;may thy servant be glad!
109:29
May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!
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, to save him from those who condemn him to death.