Psalm 109 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Plea for Judgment of False Accusers

Psa 109:1To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

Do not keep silent,
O God of my praise!

Psa 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psa 109:3

Psa 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.

Psa 109:4

Psa 109:4In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.

Psa 109:5

Psa 109:5Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

Psa 109:6

Psa 109:6Set a wicked man over him,
And let an accuser[fn] stand at his right hand.

Psa 109:7

Psa 109:7When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

Psa 109:8

Psa 109:8Let his days be few,
And let another take his office.

Psa 109:9

Psa 109:9Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.

Psa 109:10

Psa 109:10Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them seek their bread[fn] also from their desolate places.

Psa 109:11

Psa 109:11Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.

Psa 109:12

Psa 109:12Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

Psa 109:13

Psa 109:13Let his posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psa 109:14

Psa 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD,
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psa 109:15

Psa 109:15Let them be continually before the LORD,
That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psa 109:16

Psa 109:16Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the broken in heart.

Psa 109:17

Psa 109:17As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Psa 109:18

Psa 109:18As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.

Psa 109:19

Psa 109:19Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

Psa 109:20

Psa 109:20Let this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

Psa 109:21

Psa 109:21But You, O GOD the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is good, 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 am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.

Psa 109:24

Psa 109:24My knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

Psa 109:25

Psa 109:25I also have become a reproach to them;
When they look at me, they shake their heads.

Psa 109:26

Psa 109:26Help me, O LORD my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,

Psa 109:27

Psa 109:27That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, LORD, have done it!

Psa 109:28

Psa 109:28Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let Your servant rejoice.

Psa 109:29

Psa 109:29Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

Psa 109:30

Psa 109:30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.

Psa 109:31

Psa 109:31For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those who condemn him.

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NKJV Footnotes

(109:6)

Hebrew satan

(109:10)

Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint and Vulgate read be cast out.

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