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¹ To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent;² for the mouth of the wicked, and the deceitful mouth, are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.³ And they hemmed me in with words of hating; and they fought against me without a cause.⁴ In return for my love, they are my enemies; but I am in prayer.⁵ And they put on me evil for good, and hating for my love.

⁶ Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand;⁷ when he is judged, let him go out wicked; and let his prayer become sin;⁸ let his days be few; and let another take his office;⁹ his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;¹⁰ and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;¹¹ let the moneylender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers plunder his labor;¹² let there be none giving mercy to him; nor any to have pity on his orphans;¹³ let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation;¹⁴ let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;¹⁵ let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;¹⁶ because he did not remember to do mercy; and he persecuted the poor and needy man, even to kill the broken of heart.¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; he also had no pleasure in blessing, and it was far from him.¹⁸ And he put on cursing as his robe, and it came like water in his inward parts, and like oil into his bones.¹⁹ Let it be to him as a garment he wraps in, and for a girdle that he always girds on.²⁰ This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But You, O Jehovah the Lord, work with me for Your name's sake; deliver me because Your mercy is good.²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.²³ As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.²⁴ My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.²⁵ And I have become a reproach to them; they looked at me; they shook their heads.²⁶ O Jehovah my God, help me; save me according to Your mercy;²⁷ and they will know that this is Your hand; that You, O Jehovah, have done it.²⁸ They will curse, but You will bless; they rise up and are ashamed; but Your servant will be glad.²⁹ Let those who accuse me be clothed with shame; and cover themselves in their shame as with a robe.³⁰ I will greatly thank Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him in the midst of the multitude.³¹ For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy; to save from those judging his soul.