Psalm 109 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.

Psa 109:1

Psa 109:1To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!

Psa 109:2

Psa 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Psa 109:3

Psa 109:3They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

Psa 109:4

Psa 109:4In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.

Psa 109:5

Psa 109:5So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psa 109:6

Psa 109:6Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.

Psa 109:7

Psa 109:7When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!

Psa 109:8

Psa 109:8May his days be few; may another seize his goods!

Psa 109:9

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

Psa 109:10

Psa 109:10May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

Psa 109:11

Psa 109:11May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

Psa 109:12

Psa 109:12Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

Psa 109:13

Psa 109:13May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

Psa 109:14

Psa 109:14May 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 before the LORD continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth!

Psa 109:16

Psa 109:16For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.

Psa 109:17

Psa 109:17He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

Psa 109:18

Psa 109:18He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

Psa 109:19

Psa 109:19May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!

Psa 109:20

Psa 109:20May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!

Psa 109:21

Psa 109:21But thou, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name's sake; because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!

Psa 109:22

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

Psa 109:23

Psa 109:23I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psa 109:24

Psa 109:24My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Psa 109:25

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

Psa 109:26

Psa 109:26Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!

Psa 109:27

Psa 109:27Let them know that this is thy hand; thou, O LORD, hast done it!

Psa 109:28

Psa 109:28Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!

Psa 109:29

Psa 109:29May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

Psa 109:30

Psa 109:30With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

Psa 109:31

Psa 109:31For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.

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Psalm 109 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.

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