Psalms 109

1 OGod of my praise, be not silent:

1A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

2 For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

2The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

3 And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.

3With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

4 For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself unto] prayer.

4The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

5The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.

6 Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand;

6He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

7 When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;

7He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

8 Let his days be few, let another take his office;

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9 Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

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10 Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;

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11 Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;

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12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;

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13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

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14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;

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15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:

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16 Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.

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17 And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.

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18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;

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19 Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.

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20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

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21 But do thou for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me:

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

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23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

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24 My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;

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25 And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads.

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26 Help me, Jehovah myGod; save me according to thy loving-kindness:

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27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

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28 Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.

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29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

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30 I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

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31 For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.

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