Psalm 109

1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;KJV — Psalm 109:1

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.KJV — Psalm 109:2

3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.KJV — Psalm 109:3

4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.KJV — Psalm 109:4

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.KJV — Psalm 109:5

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.KJV — Psalm 109:6

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.KJV — Psalm 109:7

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.KJV — Psalm 109:8

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.KJV — Psalm 109:9

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.KJV — Psalm 109:10

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.KJV — Psalm 109:11

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.KJV — Psalm 109:12

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.KJV — Psalm 109:13

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.KJV — Psalm 109:14

15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.KJV — Psalm 109:15

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.KJV — Psalm 109:16

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.KJV — Psalm 109:17

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.KJV — Psalm 109:18

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.KJV — Psalm 109:19

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.KJV — Psalm 109:20

21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.KJV — Psalm 109:21

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

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.KJV — Psalm 109:23

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.KJV — Psalm 109:24

25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.KJV — Psalm 109:25

26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:KJV — Psalm 109:26

27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.KJV — Psalm 109:27

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.KJV — Psalm 109:28

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.KJV — Psalm 109:29

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.KJV — Psalm 109:30

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.KJV — Psalm 109:31