{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/psa109.htm","path":"bib/jps/psa109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/psa109.htm","text":"109:1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;\n109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.\n109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.\n109:4 In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.\n109:5 And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:\n109:6 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.\n109:7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.\n109:8 Let his days be few; let another take his charge.\n109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\n109:10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.\n109:11 Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.\n109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.\n109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.\n109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\n109:15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.\n109:16 Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.\n109:17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.\n109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.\n109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'\n109:20 This would mine adversaries effect from the Lord, and they that speak evil against my soul.\n109:21 But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.\n109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.\n109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.\n109:24 My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.\n109:25 I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.\n109:26 Help me, O the Lord my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;\n109:27 That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, the Lord, hast done it.\n109:28 Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.\n109:29 Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.\n109:30 I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;\n109:31 Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Psalms 109","type":"page"}