Psalm 109

¹Unto the end, a psalm for David.

²O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

³They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.

⁴Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

⁵And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

⁶Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

⁸May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.

⁹May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

¹¹May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

¹²May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

¹³May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

¹⁴May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: