PSALM 109

Prayer for Vindication and Vengeance

Psalm 109:1 Be not silent, O God of my praise!

Psalm 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 109:3 They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

Psalm 109:4 In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.

Psalm 109:5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalm 109:6 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.

Psalm 109:7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!

Psalm 109:8 May his days be few; may another seize his goods!

Psalm 109:9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

Psalm 109:10 May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of  the ruins they inhabit!

Psalm 109:11 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

Psalm 109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

Psalm 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!

Psalm 109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually; and may his c memory be cut off from the earth!

Psalm 109:16 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.

Psalm 109:17 He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

Psalm 109:18 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

Psalm 109:19 May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!

Psalm 109:20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!

Psalm 109:21 But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your mercy is good, deliver me!

Psalm 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

Psalm 109:23 I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Psalm 109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.

Psalm 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your merciful love!

Psalm 109:27 Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!

Psalm 109:28 Let them curse, but do bless! Let my assailants be put to shame;d may your servant be glad!

Psalm 109:29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

Psalm 109:30 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

Psalm 109:31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.