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109:1  (For the one directing. Of Dovid. Mizmor) Hold not Thy peace, O Elohei tehillati;
109:2  For the mouth of the rasha and the mouth of the mirmah are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a leshon sheker (a lying tongue).
109:3  They surrounded me also with divrei sinah (words of hatred); and attacked me without cause.
109:4  In return for my ahavah they are my adversaries; but I give myself unto tefillah (prayer).
109:5  Thus they have laid upon me ra’ah for tovah, and sinah for my ahavah.
109:6  Set Thou a rasha (wicked man) over him; and let Satan (the Accuser) stand at his yamin (right hand).
109:7  When he shall be tried, let him be in the judgment condemned; and let his tefillah (prayer) become sin.
109:8  Let his yamim be few; and let another take his pekuddat [See Ac 1:20 OJBC].
109:9  Let his banim be yetomim, and his isha an almanah.
109:10  Let his banim be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek from their ruins.
109:11  Let the nosheh (creditor) seize all that he hath; and let the zarim (strangers) plunder his labor.
109:12  Let there be none to extend chesed unto him; neither let there be any to favor his yetomim.
109:13  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the dor acher (generation following) let their shem be blotted out.
109:14  Let the avon of his avot be remembered before Hashem; and let not the chattat immo be blotted out.
109:15  Let them be before Hashem tamid, that He may cut off the memory of them from ha’aretz.
109:16  Because he remembered not to show chesed, but persecuted the ish oni and the evyon, that he might even slay the nikheh levav (brokenhearted person).
109:17  As he loved kelalah (cursing), so it came on him; as he delighted not in brocha (blessing), so it was far from him.
109:18  As he clothed himself with kelalah as with his garment, so let it come into his inward parts like mayim, and like shemen into his atzmot.
109:19  Let it be unto him like a beged which covereth him, and for a belt wherewith he is girded tamid (continually).
109:20  This is the reward of mine adversaries from Hashem, and of them that speak rah against my nefesh.
109:21  But Thou O Hashem Adonoi, do with me for the sake of Thy Name; because Thy chesed is tov, deliver Thou me.
109:22  For I am oni and evyon, and my lev is wounded within me.
109:23  I am gone like a lengthening tzel (shadow); I am shaken off like the arbeh.
109:24  My knees are weak from a tzom; and my basar faileth of fatness.
109:25  I became also a cherpah (reproach) unto them; when they looked upon me, they shaked their heads.
109:26  Help me, O Hashem Elohai; O hoshi’eini (save me) according to Thy chesed;
109:27  That they may know that this is Thy Yad; that Thou, Hashem, hast done it.
109:28  Let them make kelalah (curse), but do Thou make brocha; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let Thy eved rejoice.
109:29  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own shame, as with a me’il (cloak).
109:30  I will greatly praise Hashem with my mouth; and, I will praise Him among the multitude.
109:31  For He shall stand at the yamin (right hand) of the evyon (needy), to save him from those that judge with condemnation his nefesh [cf Mt 9:10-11].