Psalms 109
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1O God of my praise, be not silent.
1For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;
2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
3They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
4In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
4In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
5And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
6Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
6'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
7When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
8May his days be few; may another take his position.
8Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
11Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
15Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
16Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
17The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
19May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
19Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
20May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
20This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.
21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
21But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
23I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
24My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
25I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
26Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
26Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;
27Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.
27That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, LORD, hast done it.
28Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.
28Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
29Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
30With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.
30I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;
31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
31Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.
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