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. |
109 David complains of his enemies and appeals to God, Psa 109:1-5. Foretells their destruction, Psa 109:6-20. Prays that God would succour him in his low condition, Psa 109:21-29. Concludes with a joyful hope of deliverance, Psa 109:30-31. To the chief musician, A psalm of David.
109:1 God - The author and matter of all my praises.
109:4 Adversaries - They requite my love with enmity, as it is explained ver. Psa 89:5.
109:6 A wicked man - Who will rule him with rigour and cruelty.Satan - To accuse him; for this was the place and posture of accusers in the Jewish courts.
109:7 Sin - Because it is not from his heart.
109:10 Desolate places - Into which they are fled for fear and shame.
109:11 Catch - Heb. ensnare, take away not only by oppression but also by cunning artificers. Stranger - Who hath no right to his goods.
109:17 Delighted not - In desiring and promoting the welfare of others.
109:18 Garment - Which a man wears constantly. Like water - Water in the cavity of the belly, between the bowels, is almost certain death.And oil soaking into any of the bones, will soon utterly destroy it.
109:20 That speak evil against my soul - With design to take away my life.
109:21 Is good - Above the mercy of all the creatures.
109:23 When - Towards the evening, when the sun is setting.The locust - Which is easily driven away with every wind.