1Hold not thy tongue, O God of my praise.
2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceit are opened upon me: they have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
4For my friendship they were my adversaries, but I gave myself to prayer.
5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
6Set thou the wicked over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand.
7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer be turned into sin.
8Let his days be few, and let another take his charge.
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg and seek bread, coming out of their places destroyed.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to show mercy upon his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be destroyed, and in the generation following, let their name be put out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
15But let them always be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from the earth.
16Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the afflicted and poor man, and the sorrowful hearted to slay him.
17As he loved cursing, so shall it come unto him, and as he loved not blessing, so shall it be far from him.
18As he clothed himself with cursing like a raiment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19Let it be unto him as a garment to cover him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shall be always girded.
20Let this be the reward of mine adversary from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21But thou, O Lord my God, deal with me according unto thy Name: deliver me, (for thy mercy is good)
22Because I am poor and needy, and mine heart is wounded within me.
23I depart like the shadow that declineth, and am shaken off as the grasshopper.
24My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatness.
25I became also a rebuke unto them: they that looked upon me, shaked their heads.
26Help me, O Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy.
27And they shall know that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28Though they curse, yet thou wilt bless: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy servant shall rejoice.
29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their confusion as with a cloak.
30I will give thanks unto the Lord greatly with my mouth, and praise him among the multitude.
31For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from them that would condemn his soul.