Psalm 109
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
And fought against me without a cause.
But I give myself unto prayer.
And hatred for my love.
And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
And let his prayer be turned into sin.
And let another take his office.
And his wife a widow.
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
And my heart is wounded within me.
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
When they see me, they shake their head.
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
To save him from them that judge his soul.