The Book of Psalms

[To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.] O God of my praise, do not be silent;

for the mouth of the wicked, and the deceitful mouth, are opened against me; they spoke against me [with] a lying tongue.

And they hemmed me in [with] words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

In return for my love, they are my enemies; but I [am in] prayer.

And they put on me evil for good; and hatred for my love.

Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand;

when he is judged, let him go out wicked; and let his prayer become sin;

let his days be few; and let another take his office;

his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;

and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek [food] out of their ruins;

let the moneylender lay a snare for all that [is] his; and let strangers plunder his labor;

let there be none giving mercy to him; nor [any] to have pity on his orphans;

let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation;

let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;

let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

because he did not remember to do mercy; and persecuted the poor and needy man; even to kill the broken-hearted.

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; he also had no pleasure in blessing, and it was far from him.

As he clothed himself with cursing, as with a robe, even it came into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as a garment he wraps in, and for a girdle that he always girds on.

This [is] the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and [of] those who speak evil against my soul.

But You, O Jehovah the Lord, work with me for Your name's sake; deliver me because Your mercy [is] good.

For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.

As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.

And I have become a reproach to them; they looked at me; they shook their heads.

O Jehovah my God, help me; save me according to Your mercy;

and they will know that this [is] Your hand; that You, O Jehovah, have done it.

They will curse, but You will bless; they rise up and are ashamed; but Your servant will be glad.

Let those who accuse me be clothed with shame; and cover themselves in their shame as with a robe.

I will greatly thank Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him in the midst of the multitude.

For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy; to save from those judging his soul.