David complaineth of God's enemies -- Prayeth against them. (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.)

¹⁾Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

²⁾For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me:; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

³⁾They compassed me about; they spake against me also, with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

⁴⁾ForAnd, notwithstanding my love, they are my adversaries:; butyet I givewill myselfcontinue untoin prayer for them.

⁵⁾And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶⁾Set thou a wicked man over him:them; and let Satan stand at his right hand.

⁷⁾When hethey shall be judged, let himthem be condemned:; and let histheir prayer become sin.

⁸⁾Let histheir days be few; and let another take histheir office.

⁹⁾Let histheir children be fatherless,; and histheir wifewives a widowwidows.

¹⁰⁾Let histheir children be continually vagabonds, and beg:; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

¹¹⁾Let the extortioner catch all that hethey hathhave; and let the strangersstranger spoil histheir labourlabor.

¹²⁾Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:them; neither let there be any to favourfavor histheir fatherless children.

¹³⁾Let histheir posterity be cut off; and in the generation following; let their namenames be blotted out.

¹⁴⁾Let the iniquity of histheir fathers be remembered withbefore the LORDLord; and let not the sin of histheir mothermothers be blotted out.

¹⁵⁾Let them be before the LORDLord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶⁾Because that hethey remembered not to shewshow mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that hethey might even slay the broken in heart.

¹⁷⁾As hethey loved cursing, so let it come untoupon him:them; as hethey delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from himthem.

¹⁸⁾As hethey clothed himselfthemselves with cursing like as with histheir garmentgarments, so let it come into histheir bowels like water, and like oil into histheir bones.

¹⁹⁾Let it be unto himthem as thea garment which covereth himthem, and for a girdle wherewith hethey isare girded continually.

²⁰⁾LetThis thisshall be the reward of mine adversaries, from the LORD,Lord; and of them thatwho speak evil against my soul.

²¹⁾But do thou fordeliver me, O GODLord themy LordGod, for thy name's sake:; because thy mercy is good, therefore deliver thou me.

²²⁾For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³⁾I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:; I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴⁾My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵⁾I became also a reproach unto them:; when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

²⁶⁾Help me, O LORDLord my God:; Ooh save me according to thy mercy:;

²⁷⁾That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORDLord, hast done it.

²⁸⁾Let them curse, but bless thou:; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

²⁹⁾Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,; and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

³⁰⁾I will greatly praise the LORDLord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹⁾For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.