109:1 O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,
109:2 for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
109:3 With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
109:4 In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
109:5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
109:6 Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
109:8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
109:10 May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
109:11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
109:12 May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
109:13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
109:15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
109:16 For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
109:17 He loved to pronounce a curse--may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing--may it be far from him.
109:18 He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
109:19 May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
109:20 May this be the LORD'S payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
109:21 But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
109:24 My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
109:26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.
109:27 Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O LORD, have done it.
109:28 They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
109:29 My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
109:30 With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.
109:31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.
