| 1 | {To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.} O God of my praise, be not silent: |
| 2 | For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue, |
| 3 | And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause. |
| 4 | For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself unto] prayer. |
| 5 | And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
| 6 | Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand; |
| 7 | When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin; |
| 8 | Let his days be few, let another take his office; |
| 9 | Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow; |
| 10 | Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places; |
| 11 | Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour; |
| 12 | Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children; |
| 13 | Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out: |
| 14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out; |
| 15 | Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: |
| 16 | Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him. |
| 17 | And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him. |
| 18 | And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones; |
| 19 | Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded. |
| 20 | Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul. |
| 21 | But do thou for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me: |
| 22 | For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. |
| 23 | I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust; |
| 24 | My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness; |
| 25 | And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads. |
| 26 | Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness: |
| 27 | That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it. |
| 28 | Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice. |
| 29 | Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. |
| 30 | I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. |
| 31 | For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul. |