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title: Psalm 109
slug: kjv/psalm-109
createdAt: 2024-08-28T03:00:52.680Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

**2 **For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

**3 **They 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 me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

**6 **Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

**7 **When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become 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 continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek *their bread* also out of their desolate places.

**11 **Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

**12 **Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

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

**14 **Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

**15 **Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

**16 **Because that he remembered not to shew 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 unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

**18 **As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

**19 **Let it be unto him as the garment *which* covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

**20 ***Let* this *be* the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

**21 **But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy *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: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

**24 **My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

**25 **I became also a reproach unto them: *when* they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

**26 **Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

**27 **That they may know that this *is* thy hand; *that* thou, LORD, hast done it.

**28 **Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

**29 **Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

**30 **I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

**31 **For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save *him* from those that condemn his soul.