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109:1  For the leader. A psalm of David: God, whom I praise, don’t remain silent!
109:2  For wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me, spoken against me with lying tongues,
109:3  surrounded me with hateful words, and attacked me without cause.
109:4  In return for my love they became my accusers, even though I prayed for them.
109:5  They repay me evil for good and hatred for my love.
109:6  [They say,] “Appoint a wicked man over him, may an accuser stand at his right.
109:7  When he is tried, let him be found guilty, may even his plea be counted a sin.
109:8  May his days be few, may someone else take his position.
109:9  May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
109:10  May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.
109:11  May creditors seize all he owns and strangers make off with his earnings.
109:12  May no one treat him kindly, and may no one take pity on his orphaned children.
109:13  May his posterity be cut off; may his name be erased within a generation.
109:14  May the wrongs of his ancestors be remembered by Adonai, and may the sin of his mother not be erased;
109:15  may they always be before Adonai, so he can cut off all memory of them from the earth.
109:16  For he did not remember to show kindness but hounded the downtrodden, the poor and the brokenhearted to death.
109:17  He loved cursing; may it recoil on him! He didn’t like blessing; may it stay far from him!
109:18  He clothed himself with cursing as routinely as with his coat; May it enter inside him as easily as water, as easily as oil into his bones.
109:19  May it cling to him like the coat he wears, like the belt he wraps around himself.”
109:20  This is what my adversaries want Adonai to do, those who speak evil against me.
109:21  But you, God, Adonai, treat me as your name demands; rescue me, because your grace is good.
109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart within me is wounded.
109:23  Like a lengthening evening shadow, I am gone; I am shaken off like a locust.
109:24  My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.
109:25  I have become the object of their taunts; when they see me, they shake their heads.
109:26  Help me, Adonai, my God! Save me, in keeping with your grace;
109:27  so that they will know that this comes from your hand, that you, Adonai, have done it.
109:28  Let them go on cursing; but you, bless! When they attack, let them be put to shame; but let your servant rejoice.
109:29  Let my adversaries be clothed with confusion, let them wear their own shame like a robe.
109:30  I will eagerly thank Adonai with my mouth, I will praise him right there in the crowd,
109:31  because he stands alongside a needy person to defend him from unjust accusers.