1091God of my praise, don’t remain silent,+2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.+3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,and fought against me without a cause.+4In return for my love, they are my adversaries;but I am in prayer.+5They have rewarded me evil for good,and hatred for my love.+6Set a wicked man over him.Let an adversary stand at his right hand.+7When he is judged, let him come out guilty.Let his prayer be turned into sin.+8Let his days be few.Let another take his office.+9Let his children be fatherless,and his wife a widow.+10Let his children be wandering beggars.Let them be sought from their ruins.+11Let the creditor seize all that he has.Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.+12Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.+13Let his posterity be cut off.In the generation following let their name be blotted out.+14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh.Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.+15Let them be before Yahweh continually,that he may cut off their memory from the earth;+16because he didn’t remember to show kindness,but persecuted the poor and needy man,the broken in heart, to kill them.+17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.+18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.It came into his inward parts like water,like oil into his bones.+19Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,for the belt that is always around him.+20This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,of those who speak evil against my soul.+21But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake,because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;+22for I am poor and needy.My heart is wounded within me.+23I fade away like an evening shadow.I am shaken off like a locust.+24My knees are weak through fasting.My body is thin and lacks fat.+25I have also become a reproach to them.When they see me, they shake their head.+26Help me, Yahweh, my God.Save me according to your loving kindness;+27that they may know that this is your hand;that you, Yahweh, have done it.+28They may curse, but you bless.When they arise, they will be shamed,but your servant shall rejoice.+29Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.+30I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.+31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,to save him from those who judge his soul.+Footnotes (1)
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