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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 encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
109:4  In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
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 stand at his right hand.
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 take his office!
109:9  May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
109:10  May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from 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, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
109:16  For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the broken-hearted, to put them to death.
109:17  He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in 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 that he wraps round him, like a belt that he puts on every day!
109:20  May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!
109:21  But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your 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, with no fat.
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 your steadfast love!
109:27  Let them know that this is your hand; you, O Lord, have done it!
109:28  Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
109:29  May my accusers be clothed with dishonour; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
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 one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.