Psalm 109

¹O God of my praise, be not silent:

²For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

³And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.

⁴For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself unto] prayer.

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

⁶Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand;

⁷When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;

⁸Let his days be few, let another take his office;

⁹Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

¹⁰Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;

¹¹Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;

¹²Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour 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 remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;

¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: