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Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
2 For they have opened the
1wicked and
Adeceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken
2against me with a
Blying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me
Awithout cause.
4 In return
Afor my love they act as my accusers;
5 Thus they have
1Arepaid me evil for good
6 Appoint a wicked man over him,
And let an
1Aaccuser stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him
Acome forth guilty,
And let his
Bprayer become sin.
Let
Banother take his office.
9 Let his
Achildren be fatherless
10 Let his
Achildren wander about and beg;
And let them
Bseek
sustenance 1far from their ruined homes.
11 Let
Athe creditor
1seize all that he has,
And let
Bstrangers plunder the product of his labor.
12 Let there be none to
1Aextend lovingkindness to him,
Nor
Bany to be gracious to his fatherless children.
13 Let his
Aposterity be
1cut off;
In a following generation let their
Bname be blotted out.
14 Let
Athe iniquity of his fathers be remembered
1before the Loʀᴅ,
And do not let the sin of his mother be
Bblotted out.
15 Let
Athem be before the Loʀᴅ continually,
That He may
Bcut off their memory from the earth;
16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,
But persecuted the
Aafflicted and needy man,
And the
Bdespondent in heart, to
Cput
them to death.
17 He also loved cursing, so
Ait came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
18 But he
Aclothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it
Bentered into
1his body like water
And like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as
Aa garment with which he covers himself,
And for a belt with which he constantly
Bgirds himself.
20 1Let this be the
Areward of my accusers from the Loʀᴅ,
And of those who
Bspeak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O
1Goᴅ, the Lord, deal
kindly with me
Afor Your name’s sake;
Because
BYour lovingkindness is good, deliver me;
22 For
AI am afflicted and needy,
And
1my heart is
Bwounded within me.
23 I am passing
Alike a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off
Blike the locust.
24 My
Aknees
1are weak from
Bfasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
25 I also have become a
Areproach to them;
When they see me, they
Bwag their head.
26 AHelp me, O Loʀᴅ my God;
Save me according to Your lovingkindness.
27 1And let them
Aknow that this is Your hand;
You, Loʀᴅ, have done it.
28 ALet them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they shall be ashamed,
But Your
Bservant shall be glad.
29 1Let
Amy accusers be clothed with dishonor,
And
2let them
Bcover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Loʀᴅ;
And in the midst of many
AI will praise Him.
31 For He stands
Aat the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who
Bjudge his soul.