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.
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.