Глава 109

  • 0. [To the chiefe musition, <BR />a psalme of Dauid.]
  • 1. Holde not thy tongue: O thou the Lorde of my prayse.
  • 2. For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.
  • 3. And they haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause.
  • 4. For the loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer.
  • 5. Thus haue they rewarded me euyll for good: and hatred for my good wyll.
  • 6. Set thou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer him: and let Satan stande at his right hande.
  • 7. When sentence is geuen vpon hym, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sinne.
  • 8. Let his dayes be fewe: and let another take his office.
  • 9. Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe.
  • 10. Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes.
  • 11. Let the extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour.
  • 12. Let there be no man to shewe hym any gentlenes: nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children.
  • 13. Let his posteritie come to destruction: and in the next generation let his name be cleane put out.
  • 14. Let the wyckednes of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of God: and let not the sinne of his mother be wyped away.
  • 15. Let them be alway before God: that he may roote out the memorial of them from the earth.
  • 16. Because that he remembred not to do good: but he persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and hym whose heart was broken with sorow, that he might take his life from hym.
  • 17. His delight was in cursing, and it shal happen vnto him: he loued not blessing, therfore it hath ben farre from him.
  • 18. He clothed hym selfe with cursing, as with his garment: and it hath entred into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
  • 19. Let it be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall.
  • 20. Let this rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule.
  • 21. But thou O God my Lorde, do vnto me according vnto thy name: for sweete is thy mercy.
  • 22. Deliuer me, for truely I am afflicted: and I am poore, and my heart is wounded within me.
  • 23. I passe away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper.
  • 24. My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse.
  • 25. I am become also a reproche vnto them: they gase vpon me [and] they shake their head.
  • 26. Helpe me O my Lorde: oh saue me according to thy mercy.
  • 27. And let the know how that this is thy hande: & that thou O God hast done it.
  • 28. They will curse, but thou wylt blesse: they wyl rise vp [against me] but let them be confounded, and thy seruaunt wyll reioyce.
  • 29. Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: & let them couer the selues with their owne cofusion, as with a garment.
  • 30. As for me I will greatly prayse God with my mouth: and I wyll prayse hym among the multitude.
  • 31. For he wyll stande at the right hande of the poore: to saue him from the iudges of his soule.