Psalms 108
Psalms 109
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Psalms 109:1. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms 109:2. 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.
Psalms 109:3. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4. For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalms 109:5. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:6. Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 109:8. Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms 109:12. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15. Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:16. Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:17. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:18. 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.
Psalms 109:19. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:20. Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:21. But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
Psalms 109:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:23. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:24. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Psalms 109:25. I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms 109:26. Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Psalms 109:27. That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalms 109:28. Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Psalms 109:29. Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 109:30. I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms 110