{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/psa109.htm","path":"bib/kjv/psa109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/psa109.htm","text":"1\u00a0Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;\n \n2\u00a0For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.\n \n3\u00a0They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.\n \n4\u00a0For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.\n \n5\u00a0And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.\n \n6\u00a0Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.\n \n7\u00a0When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.\n \n8\u00a0Let his days be few; and let another take his office.\n \n9\u00a0Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\n \n10\u00a0Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.\n \n11\u00a0Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.\n \n12\u00a0Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.\n \n13\u00a0Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.\n \n14\u00a0Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\n \n15\u00a0Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.\n \n16\u00a0Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.\n \n17\u00a0As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.\n \n18\u00a0As 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.\n \n19\u00a0Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.\n \n20\u00a0Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.\n \n21\u00a0But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.\n \n22\u00a0For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.\n \n23\u00a0I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.\n \n24\u00a0My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.\n \n25\u00a0I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.\n \n26\u00a0Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:\n \n27\u00a0That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.\n \n28\u00a0Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.\n \n29\u00a0Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.\n \n30\u00a0I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.\n \n31\u00a0For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.","title":"King James Version: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 109","type":"page"}