Psalmen 109

¹For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;
²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
³They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
⁴In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
⁵And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
⁶'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
⁷When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
⁸Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
¹⁰Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
¹¹Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
¹²Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
¹³Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁶Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
¹⁷Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
¹⁸He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
¹⁹Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
²⁰This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.
²¹But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
²²For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
²³I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
²⁴My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
²⁵I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
²⁶Help me, O LORD my God; O 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, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
²⁹Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
³⁰I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;
³¹Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.

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