PSALM 109

The Judgment of the Betrayer


			
			01 Do not keep silent,
			   O God of my praise!
			02 For the mouth of the wicked
			   and the mouth of the deceitful
			   Have opened against me;
			   They have spoken against me
			   with a lying tongue.
			03 They have also surrounded me
			   with words of hatred,
			   And fought against me
			   without a cause.
			04 In return for my love they are
			   my accusers,
			   But I give myself to prayer.
			05 Thus they have rewarded me
			   evil for good.
			   And hatred for my love.
			
			06 Set the wicked man over him,
			   And let an accuser stand at his
			   right hand.
			07 When he is judged, let him be
			   found guilty,
			   And let his prayer become sin.
			08 Let his days be few,
			   And let another take his office.
			09 Let his children be fatherless.
			   And his wife a widow.
			10 Let his children continually be
			   vagabonds, and beg,
			   Let them seek their bread also 
			   from their desolate places.
			11 Let the creditor seize all that he
			   has,
			   And let strangers plunder his labor.
			12 Let there be none to extend
			   mercy to him,
			   Nor let there be any to favor his
			   fatherless children.
			   Let his posterity be cut off
			   And in the generation followings
			   let their name be blotted out.
			
			14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be
			   remembered before the LORD,
			   And let not the sin of his mother
			   be blotted out.
			15 Let them be continually before
			   the LORD,
			   That He may cut off the 
			   memory of them from the
			   earth;
			   Because he did not remember to
		   	   show mercy,
			   But persecuted the poor and 
			   needy man,
			   That he might even slay the
			   broken in heart.
			17 As he loved cursing, so let it
			   come to him;
			   As he did not delight in
			   blessing, so let it be far from
			   him.
			18 As he clothed himself with 
			   cursing as with his garment,
			   So let it enter his body like
			   water,
			   And like oil into his bones,
			19 Let it be to him like the garment
			   which covers him,
			   And for a belt with which he
			   girds himself continually.
			20 Let this be the LORD'S reward to
			   my accusers,
			   And to those who speak evil
			   against my person.
			21 But You, O God the Lord,
			   Deal with me for Your name's
			   sake;
			   Because Your mercy is good
			   deliver me.
			22 For I am poor and needy,
			   And my heart is wounded
			   within me.
			23 I am gone like a shadow when 
			  it lengthens;
			   I am shaken off like a locust.
			24 My knees are weak through
			   fasting,
			   And my flesh is feeble from lack
			   of fatness.
			   I also have become a reproach
			   to them;
			   When they look at me, they
			   shake their heads.
			
			26 Help me, O LORD my God!
			   Oh, save me according to Your
			   mercy,
			27 That they may know that this
			   is Your hand - 
			   That You, LORD have done it!
			28 Let them curse, but You
			   bless;
			   When they arise, let them be
			   ashamed,
			   But let Your servant rejoice.
			29 Let my accusers be clothed with
			   shame,
			   And let them cover themselves
			   with their own disgrace as
			   with a mantle.
			30 I will greatly praise the LORD
			   with my mouth;
			   Yes, I will praise Him among
			   the multitude.
			31 For He shall stand at the right
			   hand of the poor,
			   To save him from those
			   who condemn him.