Psalms 109

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