Psalm 109 - American Standard Version 2015 American Standard Version 2015
Psalm 109

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:\par\tab They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

³ They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,\par\tab And fought against me without a cause.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries:\par\tab But I {\i give myself unto} prayer.

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good,\par\tab And hatred for my love.

⁶ Set thou a wicked man over him;\par\tab And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

⁷ When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;\par\tab And let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸ Let his days be few;\par\tab {\i And} let another take his office.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless,\par\tab And his wife a widow.

¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;\par\tab And let them seek {\i their bread} out of their desolate places.

¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;\par\tab And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

¹² Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;\par\tab Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off;\par\tab In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;\par\tab And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually,\par\tab That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹⁶ Because he remembered not to show kindness,\par\tab But persecuted the poor and needy man,\par\tab And the broken in heart, to slay {\i them}.

¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;\par\tab And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸ He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,\par\tab And it came into his inward parts like water,\par\tab And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,\par\tab And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰ This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,\par\tab And of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake:\par\tab Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

²² For I am poor and needy,\par\tab And my heart is wounded within me.

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:\par\tab I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting;\par\tab And my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵ I am become also a reproach unto them:\par\tab When they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶ Help me, O Jehovah my God;\par\tab Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand;\par\tab {\i That} thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou:\par\tab When they arise, they shall be put to shame,\par\tab But thy servant shall rejoice.

²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,\par\tab And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰ I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;\par\tab Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹ For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,\par\tab To save him from them that judge his soul.