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Psalm 109 - New International Version, 2011 bible

Psalm 109

¹For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. [1] My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

²for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

³With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

⁴In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

⁵They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

⁶Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

⁸May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

⁹May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

¹⁰May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven [194] from their ruined homes.

¹¹May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

¹²May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

¹³May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

¹⁴May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

¹⁵May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth.

¹⁶For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.

¹⁷He loved to pronounce a curse — may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing — may it be far from him.

¹⁸He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

¹⁹May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

²⁰May this be the LORD’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

²¹But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

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

²³I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

²⁵I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love.

²⁷Let them know that it is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it.

²⁸While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice.

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

³⁰With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.

³¹For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them.