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Psalm 109 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.

Psa 109:1

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

O God of my praise!

Do not keep silent,

Psa 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;

They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psa 109:3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,

And have fought against me without a cause.

Psa 109:4

In return for my love, they attack me,

But I am in prayer.

Psa 109:5

They have repaid me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

Psa 109:6

Appoint a wicked man against him,

And let an attacker stand at his right hand [to kill him].

Psa 109:7

When he enters into dispute, let wickedness come about.

Let his prayer [for help] result [only] in sin.

Psa 109:8

Let his days be few;

And let another take his office.

Psa 109:9

Let his children be fatherless

And his wife a widow.

Psa 109:10

Let his children wander and beg;

Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

Psa 109:11

Let the creditor seize all that he has,

And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.

Psa 109:12

Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,

Nor let anyone be gracious to his fatherless children.

Psa 109:13

Let his descendants be cut off,

And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

Psa 109:14

Let the wickedness of his fathers be remembered by the LORD;

And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psa 109:15

Let them be before the LORD continually,

That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

Psa 109:16

Because the man did not remember to show kindness,

But persecuted the suffering and needy man,

And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.

Psa 109:17

He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;

He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Psa 109:18

He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,

And it seeped into his inner self like water

And like [anointing] oil into his bones.

Psa 109:19

Let it be to him as a robe with which he covers himself,

And as a sash with which he is constantly bound.

Psa 109:20

Let this be the reward of my attackers from the LORD,

And of those who speak evil against my life.

Psa 109:21

But You, O GOD, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name’s sake;

Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;

Psa 109:22

For I am suffering and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

Psa 109:23

I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;

I am shaken off like the locust.

Psa 109:24

My knees are unsteady from fasting;

And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.

Psa 109:25

I also have become a reproach and an object of taunting to others;

When they see me, they shake their heads [in derision].

Psa 109:26

Help me, O LORD my God;

Save me according to Your lovingkindness—

Psa 109:27

And let them know that this is Your hand;

You, LORD, have done it.

Psa 109:28

Let them curse, but You bless.

When adversaries arise, let them be ashamed,

But let Your servant rejoice.

Psa 109:29

Let my attackers be clothed with dishonor,

And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Psa 109:30

I will give great praise and thanks to the LORD with my mouth;

And in the midst of many I will praise Him.

Psa 109:31

For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,

To save him from those who judge his soul.

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