- 1. <For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.><br>
God of my praise, don't remain silent, - 2. for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
- 3. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- 4. In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
- 5. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- 6. Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- 7. When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
- 8. Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
- 9. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
- 10. Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
- 11. Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
- 12. Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
- 13. Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- 14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- 15. Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
- 16. because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
- 17. Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
- 18. He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
- 19. Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
- 20. This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.
- 21. But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
- 22. for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
- 23. I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
- 24. My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
- 25. I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
- 26. Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- 27. that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.
- 28. They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
- 29. Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
- 30. I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
- 31. For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
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