Psalms 109
109
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David.
1Do not be silent,
O God of my praise! # Dt 10:21; Ps 28:1
2For the mouth of the wicked and the deceitful
have they opened against me;
they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. # Ps 52:4
3They have also encircled me with words of hatred
and fought against me without cause. # Ps 35:7; 69:4
4In return for my love they are my accusers, # Ps 38:20
but I give myself to prayer. # Lk 23:34
5So they have rewarded me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.
6Appoint a wicked man against him,
and let an accuser stand at his right hand. # Zec 3:1
7When he is judged, let him be condemned,
and let his prayer be reckoned as sin. # Pr 15:8; 28:9
8Let his days be few, # Ps 55:23
and let another take his office. # Ac 1:20
9Let his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow. # Ex 22:24; Jer 18:21
10Let his children wander continuously and beg;
let them seek their bread far from their desolate homes. # Ps 37:25
11Let the creditor seize all that he has,
and let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. # Job 5:5
12Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off, # Job 18:19
and in the generation following let his name be blotted out. # Pr 10:7
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, # Ex 20:5
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. # Ne 4:5
15Let them be before the Lord continually,
that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth. # Job 18:17; Ps 34:16
16For he did not remember to show kindness,
but persecuted the poor and needy and broken-hearted # Ps 34:18
to slay them.
17He loved cursing;
so let it come on him; # Pr 14:14; Eze 35:6
He did not delight in blessing;
so let it be far from him.
18He clothed himself with cursing as his garment; # Ps 73:6
so let it enter his body like water, # Nu 5:22
and like oil into his bones.
19Let it be to him like a garment with which he covers himself, # Ps 109:29
and like a belt with which he continually girds himself.
20Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,
and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21But You, O God, the Lord,
work on my behalf for Your name’s sake; # Ps 25:11
because Your mercy is good, deliver me. # Ps 63:3
22For I am poor and needy, # Ps 40:17; 86:1
and my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust. # Ex 10:19
24My knees are weak through fasting, # Heb 12:12
and my flesh has grown gaunt with no fatness.
25I also have become a reproach to them;
when they look at me, they shake their heads. # Ps 22:6–7
26Help me, O Lord my God! # Ps 119:86
Save me according to Your mercy,
27that they may know that this is Your hand, # Job 37:7
that You, O Lord, have done it.
28Let them curse, but You will bless;
when they arise, let them be ashamed,
but let Your servant rejoice.
29Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a mantle. # Ps 35:26; 132:18
30I will greatly give thanks to the Lord with my mouth;
I will praise Him among the multitude. # Ps 35:18; 111:1
31For He stands at the right hand of the poor, # Ps 16:8; 73:23
to save him from those who condemn his soul.
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