Bible, King James Version
Psalms
Pss.109
[1] Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
[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.
[3] They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and
fought against me without a cause.
[4] For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself
unto prayer.
[5] And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred
for my love.
[6] Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at
his right hand.
[7] When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let
his prayer become sin.
[8] Let his days be few; and let another take his
office.
[9] Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a
widow.
[10] Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
[11] Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let
the strangers spoil his labour.
[12] Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither
let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
[13] Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation
following let their name be blotted out.
[14] Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
[15] Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may
cut off the memory of them from the earth.
[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.
[17] As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he
delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
[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.
[19] Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
[20] Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the
LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
[21] But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's
sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
[22] For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded
within me.
[23] I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am
tossed up and down as the locust.
[24] My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh
faileth of fatness.
[25] I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked
upon me they shaked their heads.
[26] Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy
mercy:
[27] That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou,
LORD, hast done it.
[28] Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let
them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
[29] Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let
them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a
mantle.
[30] I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I
will praise him among the multitude.
[31] For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to
save him from those that condemn his soul.
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