The Book of Psalms 109

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1 Hold not thy peace O God of my praise ⚑

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue ⚑

3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause ⚑

4 For my love they are my adversaries but I give myself unto prayer ⚑

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love ⚑

6 Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand ⚑

7 When he shall be judged let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin ⚑

8 Let his days be few and let another take his office ⚑

9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow ⚑

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places ⚑

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the strangers spoil his labour ⚑

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children ⚑

13 Let his posterity be cut off and in the generation following let their name be blotted out ⚑

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out ⚑

15 Let them be before the LORD continually that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth ⚑

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man that he might even slay the broken in heart ⚑

17 As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far from him ⚑

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones ⚑

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually ⚑

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD and of them that speak evil against my soul ⚑

21 But do thou for me O GOD the Lord for thy name’s sake because thy mercy is good deliver thou me ⚑

22 For I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me ⚑

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth I am tossed up and down as the locust ⚑

24 My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh faileth of fatness ⚑

25 I became also a reproach unto them when they looked upon me they shaked their heads ⚑

26 Help me O LORD my God O save me according to thy mercy ⚑

27 That they may know that this is thy hand that thou LORD hast done it ⚑

28 Let them curse but bless thou when they arise let them be ashamed but let thy servant rejoice ⚑

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle ⚑

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth yea I will praise him among the multitude ⚑

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from those that condemn his soul ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain