Psalms 109
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;
1The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
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.
2The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
3They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
3With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.
4In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
4The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
5And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
5The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.
6'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
6He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of the many.
7When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
7He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
8Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
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9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
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11Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
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12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
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13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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14Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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15Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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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.
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17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
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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.
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19Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
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20This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.
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21But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
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22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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23I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
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24My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
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25I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
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26Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;
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27That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, LORD, hast done it.
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28Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
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29Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
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30I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;
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31Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.
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