1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;⇆ compare2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.⇆ compare3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.⇆ compare4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.⇆ compare5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.⇆ compare6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.⇆ compare7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.⇆ compare8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.⇆ compare9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.⇆ compare10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.⇆ compare11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.⇆ compare12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.⇆ compare13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.⇆ compare14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.⇆ compare15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.⇆ compare16Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.⇆ compare17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.⇆ compare18As 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.⇆ compare19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.⇆ compare20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.⇆ compare21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.⇆ compare22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.⇆ compare23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.⇆ compare24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.⇆ compare25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.⇆ compare26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:⇆ compare27That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.⇆ compare28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.⇆ compare29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.⇆ compare30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.⇆ compare31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.⇆ compare