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109:1  For the Music Director. A Psalm of David. Do not remain silent, O God of my praise!
109:2  For the mouth of the wicked and deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:3  They encircled me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.
109:4  In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.
109:5  They have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.
109:6  Set a wicked man against him, and let an accuser stand at his right hand.
109:7  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer be reckoned as sin.
109:8  Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
109:9  Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
109:10  Let his children be wandering beggars; let them seek their bread far from their desolate places.
109:11  Let the creditor seize all that he has; let the strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
109:12  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to pity his fatherless children.
109:13  Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let his name be blotted out.
109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15  Let them be before the Lord continually, that the Lord 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 broken-hearted to their death.
109:17  As he loved cursing, so let it come over him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing like a garment, so let it soak into him like water, and like oil into his bones.
109:19  Let it be unto him as the garment that covers him, and a belt that he continually wears.
109:20  Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
109:21  But You, O God my Lord, work on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your mercy is good, deliver me.
109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23  I am gone like a shadow in the evening; I am tossed as the locust.
109:24  My knees are weak through fasting, and my body is thin with no fat.
109:25  I am a reproach to my accusers; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.
109:26  Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to Your mercy,
109:27  that they may know that this is by Your hand, that You, O Lord, have done it.
109:28  Let them curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice.
109:29  Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace like a cloak.
109:30  I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; indeed, I will praise Him among the multitude.
109:31  For He stands at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.