Psalm 109 NKJV

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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-3"><span class="text Ps-109-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Do not keep silent,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-1">O God of my praise!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-2">Have opened against me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-2">They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-3">And fought against me without a cause.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In return for my love they are my accusers,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-4">But I <i>give myself to</i> prayer.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-5">And hatred for my love.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Set a wicked man over him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-6">And let an <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>accuser stand at his right hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When he is judged, let him be found guilty,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-7">And let his prayer become sin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let his days be few,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-8"><i>And</i> let another take his office.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let his children be fatherless,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-9">And his wife a widow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let his children <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>continually be vagabonds, and beg;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-10">Let them <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>seek <i>their bread</i> also from their desolate places.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let the creditor seize all that he has,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-11">And let strangers plunder his labor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let there be none to extend mercy to him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-12">Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Let his <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>posterity be cut off,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-13"><i>And</i> in the generation following let their name be blotted out.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-14">And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them be continually before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-15">That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Because he did not remember to show mercy,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-16">But persecuted the poor and needy man,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-16">That he might even slay the broken in heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-17">As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-18">So let it enter his body like water,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-18">And like oil into his bones.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-19">And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><i>Let</i> this <i>be</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s reward to my accusers,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-20">And to those who speak evil against my person.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But You, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span> the Lord,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-21">Deal with me for Your name’s sake;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-21">Because Your mercy <i>is</i> good, deliver me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I <i>am</i> poor and needy,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-22">And my heart is wounded within me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-23">I am shaken off like a locust.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>My knees are weak through fasting,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-24">And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I also have become a reproach to them;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-25"><i>When</i> they look at me, they shake their heads.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Help me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> my God!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-26">Oh, save me according to Your mercy,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>That they may know that this <i>is</i> Your hand—</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-27"><i>That</i> You, <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, have done it!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Let them curse, but You bless;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-28">When they arise, let them be ashamed,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-28">But let Your servant rejoice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Let my accusers be clothed with shame,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-29">And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will greatly praise the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> with my mouth;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-30">Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-109-31">To save <i>him</i> from those <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>who condemn him.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-15762a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 109:6">Psalm 109:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>satan</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15766b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 109:10">Psalm 109:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>wander continuously</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15766c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 109:10">Psalm 109:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. <i>be cast out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15769d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 109:13">Psalm 109:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>descendants be destroyed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15787e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 109:31">Psalm 109:31</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>judging his soul</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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