109 ¹ Be not silent, O God of my praise!
109 ² For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.
109 ³ They beset me with words of hate,
and attack me without cause.
109 ⁴ In return for my love they accuse me,
even as I make prayer for them.
109 ⁵ So they reward me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

109 ⁶ Appoint a wicked man against him;
let an accuser bring him to trial.
109 ⁷ When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
let his prayer be counted as sin!
109 ⁸ May his days be few;
may another seize his goods!
109 ⁹ May his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow!
109 ¹⁰ May his children wander about and beg;
may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
109 ¹¹ May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
109 ¹² Let there be none to extend kindness to him,
nor any to pity his fatherless children!
109 ¹³ May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
109 ¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before Yahweh,
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
109 ¹⁵ Let them be before Yahweh continually;
and may his memory be cut off from the earth!
109 ¹⁶ For he did not remember to show kindness,
but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.
109 ¹⁷ He loved to curse; let curses come on him!
He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!
109 ¹⁸ He clothed himself with cursing as his coat,
may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
109 ¹⁹ May it be like a garment which he wraps round him,
like a belt with which he daily girds himself!

109 ²⁰ May this be the reward of my accusers from Yahweh,
of those who speak evil against my life!
109 ²¹ But you, O GOD my Yahweh, will deal on my behalf for your name's sake;
because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
109 ²² For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
109 ²³ I am gone, like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.
109 ²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting;
my body has become gaunt.
109 ²⁵ I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they wag their heads.

109 ²⁶ Help me, O Yahweh my God!
Save me according to your steadfast love!
109 ²⁷ Let them know that this is your hand;
you, O Yahweh, have done it!
109 ²⁸ Let them curse, but you bless!
Let my assailants be put to shame;
may your servant be glad!
109 ²⁹ May my accusers be clothed with dishonour;
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

109 ³⁰ With my mouth I will give great thanks to Yahweh;
I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
109 ³¹ For he stands at the right hand of the needy,
to save him from those who condemn him to death.