CIX. Book V. Vengeance Invoked Upon Adversaries. 1909-14. The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics

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The Book of Psalms.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Book V

CIX

Vengeance Invoked Upon Adversaries

For 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 deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto 1 me with a lying tongue.
[3]	They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
[4]	For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer.
[5]	And they have rewarded 2 me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
[6]	Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an 3 adversary stand at his right hand.
[7]	When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be 4 turned into sin.
[8]	Let his days be few; And let another take his office.
[9]	Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
[10]	Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out 5 of their desolate places.
[11]	Let the extortioner catch 6 all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
[12]	Let there be none to extend 7 kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
[13]	Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
[14]	Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
[15]	Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
[16]	Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them.
[17]	Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
[18]	He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
[19]	Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
[20]	This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.
[21]	But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, 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: 8 I am tossed up and down as the locust.
[24]	My knees are 9 weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
[25]	I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.
[26]	Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
[27]	That they may know that this is thy hand; That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
[28]	Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.
[29]	Let 10 mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
[30]	I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
[31]	For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.

Note 1. Or, against. [back]

Note 2. Heb. laid upon me. [back]

Note 3. Or, Satan. [back]

Note 4. Or, become. [back]

Note 5. Or, far from. [back]

Note 6. Heb. snare. [back]

Note 7. Or, continue. [back]

Note 8. Or, is stretched out. [back]

Note 9. Or, totter. [back]

Note 10. Or, Mine adversaries shall be clothed … And they shall cover &c. [back]

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