Psalm 109 :: New International Version (NIV)

Psa 109:1For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

Psa 109:2for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

Psa 109:3

Psa 109:3With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

Psa 109:4

Psa 109:4In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Psa 109:5

Psa 109:5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Psa 109:6

Psa 109:6Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Psa 109:7

Psa 109:7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

Psa 109:8

Psa 109:8May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

Psa 109:9

Psa 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psa 109:10

Psa 109:10May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven[fn] from their ruined homes.

Psa 109:11

Psa 109:11May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psa 109:12

Psa 109:12May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

Psa 109:13

Psa 109:13May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

Psa 109:14

Psa 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Psa 109:15

Psa 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth.

Psa 109:16

Psa 109:16For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.

Psa 109:17

Psa 109:17He loved to pronounce a curse— may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him.

Psa 109:18

Psa 109:18He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

Psa 109:19

Psa 109:19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Psa 109:20

Psa 109:20May this be the LORD’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

Psa 109:21

Psa 109:21But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

Psa 109:22

Psa 109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psa 109:23

Psa 109:23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psa 109:24

Psa 109:24My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

Psa 109:25

Psa 109:25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psa 109:26

Psa 109:26Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love.

Psa 109:27

Psa 109:27Let them know that it is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it.

Psa 109:28

Psa 109:28While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice.

Psa 109:29

Psa 109:29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

Psa 109:30

Psa 109:30With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.

Psa 109:31

Psa 109:31For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them.

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