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Psalms 109

Psalm 109

Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.

¹God of my praise, Do not be silent!

²For they have opened a wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And have fought against me without cause.

⁴In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.

⁵So they have repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

⁶¶Appoint a wicked person over him, And may an accuser stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, may he come out guilty, And may his prayer become sin.

⁸May his days be few; May another take his office.

⁹May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

¹⁰May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

¹¹May the creditor seize everything that he has, And may strangers plunder the product of his labor.

¹²May there be none to extend kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.

¹³May his descendants be eliminated; May their name be wiped out in a following generation.

¹⁴¶May the guilt of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.

¹⁵May they be before the Lord continually, So that He may eliminate their memory from the earth;

¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the afflicted and needy person, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

¹⁷He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

¹⁸But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered his body like water, And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹May it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And as a belt which he constantly wears around himself.

²⁰May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, And of those who speak evil against my soul.

²¹¶But You, God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; Because Your mercy is good, rescue me;

²²For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.

²⁴My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

²⁵I also have become a disgrace to them; When they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶¶Help me, Lord my God; Save me according to Your mercy.

²⁷And may they know that this is Your hand; You, Lord, have done it.

²⁸They will curse, but You bless; When they arise, they will be ashamed, But Your servant will be glad.

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with dishonor, And may they cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰¶With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord; And I will praise Him in the midst of many.

³¹For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.

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