1: (To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.) O God of my praise, be not silent: 2: For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue, 3: And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause. 4: For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself unto] prayer. 5: And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6: Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand; 7: When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin; 8: Let his days be few, let another take his office; 9: Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow; 10: Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places; 11: Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour; 12: Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children; 13: Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out: 14: Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out; 15: Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: 16: Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him. 17: And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him. 18: And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones; 19: Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded. 20: Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul. 21: But do thou for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me: 22: For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23: I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust; 24: My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness; 25: And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads. 26: Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness: 27: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it. 28: Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice. 29: Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. 30: I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. 31: For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.
