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