KJ3 Literal Translation

Psalms 109

David complaining of his slanderous enemies, prays against them.

31 verses · word-for-word from the Hebrew and Greek · free to read

1To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent;

2for the mouth of the wicked one, and the mouth of deceit, are opened against me; they spoke against me with a tongue of falsehood.

3And they circled me in with words of hatred; and they fought against me without a cause.

4Instead of my love, they oppose me; but I am in prayer.

5And they put on me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6Set a wicked one over him; and let one opposing stand at his right hand;

7when he is judged, let him go out as a wicked one; and let his prayer become sin;

8let his days be few; and let another take his office;

9his sons be orphans and his wife a widow;

10and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;

11let the one lending lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers plunder his labor;

12let there not be to him one giving kindness; and let there not be one having pity on his orphans;

13let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation;

14let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;

15let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

16because he did not remember to do kindness; and he persecuted the afflicted and needy one, even to cause the broken of heart to die.

17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; he also had no pleasure in blessing, and it was far from him.

18And he put on cursing as his garment, and it came within him like water, and like oil into his bones.

19Let it be to him as a garment he wraps in, and for a girdle that he always girds on.

20This is the reward from Jehovah to those opposing me from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

21But You, O Jehovah the Lord, work with me for Your name's sake; deliver me because Your mercy is good.

22For I am an afflicted and needy one, and my heart is pierced within me.

23As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

24My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.

25And I have become a reproach to them; they saw me; they shook their heads.

26O Jehovah my God, help me; save me according to Your kindness;

27and they will know that this is Your hand, that You, O Jehovah, have done it.

28They will curse, but You will bless; they rise up and are ashamed, but Your servant will be glad.

29Let those opposing me put on shame, and cover themselves in their shame as with a robe.

30I will greatly thank Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him in the midst of the many.

31For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy one to save from those judging his soul.

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