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A Psalm of David.</i></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O God of my praise, do not keep silent,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Set a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When he is judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer become sin.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let his days be few; let another take his office.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let his children always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their desolate places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let the creditor seize all that is his; and let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let there be none to give mercy to him, nor any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following, let their name be blotted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them be always before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the brokenhearted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come unto him; he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Let it be to him as the robe which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is always clothed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let this be the reward of my foes from the LORD, and of them who speak evil against my soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But You, O GOD the Lord, deal <i>kindly</i> with me for Your name's sake because Your mercy is good, deliver me,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>My knees are weak from fasting, and my flesh has become gaunt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And I also became a reproach to them when they looked upon Me; they shook their heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your steadfast love;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So that they may know that this is <i>of</i> Your hand; that You, LORD, have done it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They will curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let Your servant rejoice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Let my accusers be clothed with confusion, and let them wrap themselves in their own shame, as with a cloak.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/109-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/108.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 108"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 108" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/110.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 110"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 110" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>