Psalms 109:1 ←
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms 109:2 ←
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109:3 ←
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4 ←
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalms 109:5 ←
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:6 ←
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7 ←
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 109:8 ←
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9 ←
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10 ←
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11 ←
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms 109:12 ←
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13 ←
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14 ←
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15 ←
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:16 ←
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:17 ←
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:18 ←
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms 109:19 ←
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:20 ←
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:21 ←
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
Psalms 109:22 ←
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:23 ←
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:24 ←
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Psalms 109:25 ←
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms 109:26 ←
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Psalms 109:27 ←
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalms 109:28 ←
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Psalms 109:29 ←
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 109:30 ←
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31 ←
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
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