Psalm 109
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- For the conductor. Of David, a song. O God of my praise, be not silent.
- For the mouth of a wicked man and the mouth of a deceitful man have opened upon me; they spoke with me with a lying tongue.
- And with words of hatred they have surrounded me, and they have fought with me without cause.
- Instead of my love, they persecute me, but I am at prayer.
- They have imposed upon me evil instead of good and hatred instead of my love.
- Set a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- When he is judged, let him emerge guilty, and let his prayer be accounted as a sin.
- May his days be few, and may someone else take his office of dignity.
- May his sons be orphans and his wife a widow.
- May his sons wander, and [people] should ask and search from their ruins.
- May a creditor search out all he has, and may strangers despoil his labor.
- May he have none who extends kindness, and may no one be gracious to his orphans.
- May his end be to be cut off; in another generation may their name be blotted out.
- May the iniquity against his forefathers be remembered by the Lord, and may the sin against his mother not be erased.
- May they be before the Lord constantly, and may He cut off their remembrance from the earth.
- Because he did not remember to do kindness, and he pursued a poor and needy man, and a broken-hearted one, to kill [him].
- And he loved a curse, and it came upon him; and he did not desire a blessing, and it distanced itself from him.
- And he donned a curse like his garment, and it came into his midst like water and into his bones like oil.
- May it be to him as a garment with which he envelops himself and as a girdle with which he constantly girds himself.
- This is the recompense of my adversaries from the Lord, and those who speak evil upon my soul.
- But You, O God, my Lord, do with me for Your name’s sake, for Your kindness is good; save me.
- For I am poor and needy, and my heart has died within me.
- Like a shadow when it lengthens, I was driven about; I was stirred up like a locust.
- My knees stumbled from fasting, and my flesh became emaciated from fat.
- And I was a disgrace to them; they would see me, they would shake their head.
- Help me, O Lord, my God; save me according to Your kindness.
- And they should know that this is Your hand; You, O Lord, have done it.
- Let them curse and You will bless; they rose up and were ashamed, but Your servant will rejoice.
- May my adversaries don disgrace and enwrap themselves with their shame like a cloak.
- I shall thank the Lord exceedingly with my mouth, and among many people I shall praise Him.
- For He will stand to the right of the needy to save [him] from those who judge his soul.