To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.
Hold not
thy peace, O God of my praise;
02 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.
03 They compassed me about also with words of
hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
04 For my love they are my adversaries: but I
give myself unto prayer.
05 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and
hatred for my love.
06 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan
stand at his right hand.
07 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned:
and let his prayer become sin.
08 Let his days be few; and let another take his
office.
09 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.
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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.
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