| 1 | To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 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 encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. |
| 4 | For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to 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 strangers spoil his labor. |
| 12 | Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor 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 show 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 to 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 to him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually. |
| 20 | Let this be the reward of my 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 to them: when they looked upon me they shook 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 my 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; yes, I will praise him among the multitude. |
| 31 | For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. |