Psalm 109 (ASV) - [For the Chief Musician. A

Psa 109:1

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

Psa 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:

They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Psa 109:3

They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,

And fought against me without a cause.

Psa 109:4

For my love they are my adversaries:

But I give myself unto prayer.

Psa 109:5

And they have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

Psa 109:6

Set thou a wicked man over him;

And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

Psa 109:7

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;

And let his prayer be turned into 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 be vagabonds, and beg;

And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Psa 109:11

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;

And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

Psa 109:12

Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;

Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

Psa 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off;

In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psa 109:14

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;

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

Psa 109:15

Let them be before Jehovah continually,

That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psa 109:16

Because he remembered not to show kindness,

But persecuted the poor and needy man,

And the broken in heart, to slay them.

Psa 109:17

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;

And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

Psa 109:18

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water,

And like oil into his bones.

Psa 109:19

Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,

And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Psa 109:20

This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,

And of them that speak evil against my soul.

Psa 109:21

But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:

Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

Psa 109:22

For I am poor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

Psa 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:

I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psa 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting;

And my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psa 109:25

I am become also a reproach unto them:

When they see me, they shake their head.

Psa 109:26

Help me, O Jehovah my God;

Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

Psa 109:27

That they may know that this is thy hand;

That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

Psa 109:28

Let them curse, but bless thou:

When they arise, they shall be put to shame,

But thy servant shall rejoice.

Psa 109:29

Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,

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

Psa 109:30

I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;

Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

Psa 109:31

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

To save him from them that judge his soul.

Psalm 109 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Vengeance invoked upon Adversaries.