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109:1  For the director. A psalm of David. O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent.
109:2  Wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
109:3  They confront me with words of hatred and assail me without cause.
109:4  In return for my love they denounce me even as I offer up prayers for them.
109:5  They give me back evil in exchange for good and hatred in place of my love.
109:6  They say: “Choose a wicked man to oppose him, an accuser to stand on his right.
109:7  At his judgment, let him be found guilty, with even his prayers deemed sinful.
109:8  “May his remaining days be few, with someone else appointed to take his office.
109:9  May his children become fatherless and his wife become widowed.
109:10  “May his children be vagrants and beggars, driven from the ruins they use for shelter.
109:11  May the creditor seize all he has, and strangers abscond with his life savings.
109:12  “May no one extend mercy to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
109:13  May his posterity be doomed to extinction and his name be blotted out within a generation.
109:14  “May the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered by the Lord, and the sin of his mother never be wiped out.
109:15  May their guilt be continually before the Lord, and may he banish all remembrance of them from the earth.
109:16  “For he never thought of showing mercy; rather, he hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
109:17  He loved to level curses at others; may they recoil on him. He took no pleasure in blessing; may no blessing be his.
109:18  “He clothed himself with cursing as his garment; it seeped into his body like water and into his bones like oil.
109:19  May it be like the robe that envelops him, like the belt that encircles him every day.”
109:20  May these evils my accusers wish for me be inflicted upon them by the Lord.
109:21  But you, O Lord, my God, treat me kindly for your name’s sake; deliver me because of your overwhelming kindness.
109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
109:23  I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
109:24  My knees are weak from fasting; my flesh is wasting away.
109:25  I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers; upon seeing me, they toss their heads.
109:26  Come to my aid, O Lord, my God; save me because of your kindness.
109:27  Let them know that your hand has done this, that you, O Lord, have accomplished it.
109:28  When they curse, you will bless; when they attack, they will be put to shame, and your servant will rejoice.
109:29  My accusers will be clothed in disgrace, wrapped in their shame as in a cloak.
109:30  I will thank the Lord with my lips, and before all the people I will praise him.
109:31  For he stands at the right hand of the poor to save him from his accusers who pass judgment on him.