¹ <<To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.>> Do not hold 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 of me with a lying tongue.

³ They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

⁴ They have [responded] to my love by becoming 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 the 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] out of their desolate places.

¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labour.

¹² Let there be no one 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 he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor [in spirit] and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.

¹⁷ As he loved the curse, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in the blessing, so let it be far from him.

¹⁸ As he clothed himself with the curse like as with his garment, and it entered into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covers him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰ [Let] this [be] the reward from the LORD of those who spoke falsely against me and of those that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ And thou, O GOD the Lord, do unto me for thy name's sake; because thy mercy [is] good, deliver me.

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

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down [by the wind] as the locust.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness.

²⁵ I have become a reproach unto them; [when] they looked upon me they shook 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, O 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 those who speak evil against me falsely 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 [in spirit] to save his soul from those that judge him.: