108:0 ^[665] KJV Chapter [109] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David:

108:1 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:

108:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause:

108:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer:

108:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love:

108:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand:

108:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin:

108:8 Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office:

108:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow:

108:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places:

108:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour:

108:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children:

108:13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

108:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out:

108:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:

108:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart:

108:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him:

108:18 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:

108:19 Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually:

108:20 Let this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul:

108:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name' s sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me:

108:22 For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me:

108:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust:

108:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness:

108:25 I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads:

108:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

108:27 That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done it:

108:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice:

108:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle:

108:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude:

108:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul: