Psalm 109

¹God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

²For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

³Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

⁴For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

⁵They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

⁶Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

⁷When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

⁸Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

⁹Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

¹¹Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

¹²Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

¹³Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

¹⁴Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

¹⁵Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.