1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise;
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit they have opened against me: They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3They have surrounded me also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
4For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself to prayer.
5And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
6Set a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.
8Let his days be few; And let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
12Let there be none to extend kindness to him; Nor let there be any 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 with Yehovah; And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before Yehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16Because he did not remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them.
17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
19Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, And for the belt with which he is girded continually.
20This is the reward of my adversaries from Yehovah, And of those who speak evil against my soul.
21But deal with me, O Yehovah the Lord, for your name’s sake: Because your lovingkindness is good, deliver me;
22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
23I have gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
25I have become also a reproach to them: When they see me, they shake their head.
26Help me, O Yehovah my God; Oh save me according to your lovingkindness:
27That they may know that this is your hand; That you, Yehovah, have done it.
28Let them curse, but bless you: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But your servant shall rejoice.
29Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30I will give great thanks to Yehovah 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.