| Chapter 108 |
1 | Unto the end, a psalm for David.
|
2 | O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
|
3 | They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
|
4 | Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
|
5 | And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
|
6 | Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
|
7 | When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
|
8 | May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
|
9 | May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
|
10 | Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
|
11 | May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
|
12 | May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
|
13 | May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
|
14 | May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
|
15 | May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
|
16 | because he remembered not to show mercy,
|
17 | But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
|
18 | And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
|
19 | May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
|
20 | This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
|
21 | But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
|
22 | for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
|
23 | I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
|
24 | My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
|
25 | And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
|
26 | Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
|
27 | And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
|
28 | They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
|
29 | Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
|
30 | I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
|
31 | Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors
|