Psalm 109:1-Psalm 110:1 - Prayer Against An Enemy

¹ For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.God of my praise, do not be silent. ² For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;
they speak against me with lying tongues.
³ They surround me with hateful words
and attack me without cause.
⁴ In return for my love they accuse me,
but I continue to pray.
⁵ They repay me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

⁶ Set a wicked person over him;
let an accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
and let his prayer be counted as sin.
⁸ Let his days be few;
let another take over his position.
⁹ Let his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far from their demolished homes.
¹¹ Let a creditor seize all he has;
let strangers plunder what he has worked for.
¹² Let no one show him kindness,
and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.
¹³ Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.
¹⁴ Let his ancestors’ guilt
be remembered before the Lord,
and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let their sins always remain before the Lord,
and let Him erase all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶ For he did not think to show kindness,
but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted
in order to put them to death.
¹⁷ He loved cursing—let it fall on him;
he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.
¹⁸ He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.
¹⁹ Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,
like a belt he always wears.
²⁰ Let this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil against me.

²¹ But You, Yahweh my Lord,
deal kindly with me because of Your name;
deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love.
²² For I am afflicted and needy;
my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.
²⁴ My knees are weak from fasting,
and my body is emaciated.
²⁵ I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

²⁶ Help me, Lord my God;
save me according to Your faithful love
²⁷ so they may know that this is Your hand
and that You, Lord, have done it.
²⁸ Though they curse, You will bless.
When they rise up, they will be put to shame,
but Your servant will rejoice.
²⁹ My accusers will be clothed with disgrace;
they will wear their shame like a cloak.
³⁰ I will fervently thank the Lord with my mouth;
I will praise Him in the presence of many.
³¹ For He stands at the right hand of the needy
to save him from those who would condemn him.

¹ A Davidic psalm.This is the declaration of the Lord
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”