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109:1  To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!
109:2  For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
109:3  They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
109:4  In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.
109:5  So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6  Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.
109:7  When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
109:8  May his days be few; may another seize his goods!
109:9  May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
109:10  May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
109:11  May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
109:12  Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
109:13  May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
109:14  May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
109:15  Let them be before the Lord continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth!
109:16  For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.
109:17  He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!
109:18  He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
109:19  May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!
109:20  May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!
109:21  But thou, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name’s sake; because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!
109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
109:23  I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
109:24  My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
109:25  I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
109:26  Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!
109:27  Let them know that this is thy hand; thou, O Lord, hast done it!
109:28  Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!
109:29  May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!
109:30  With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
109:31  For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.