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¹ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Don't hold your peace, O God of my praise;² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit they have opened against me: They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.³ They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.⁴ In return for my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself to] prayer.⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred 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 come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.⁸ Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office.⁹ Let his sons be fatherless, And his wife a widow.¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.¹² Let there be none to extend kindness to 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 Yahweh; And don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.¹⁵ Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;¹⁶ Because he did not remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them].¹⁷ Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him; And he did not delight 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 to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, And for the girdle with which he is girded continually.²⁰ This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, And of those that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But deal with me, O Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake: Because your loving-kindness is good, deliver me;²² For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded inside me.²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.²⁵ I have also become a reproach to them: When they see me, they shake their head.²⁶ Help me, O Yahweh my God; Oh save me according to your loving-kindness:²⁷ That they may know that this is your hand; [That] you, Yahweh, have done it.²⁸ Let them curse, but you bless: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But your slave shall rejoice.²⁹ Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.³⁰ I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth; Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.³¹ For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those that judge his soul.