1. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent;
2. for the mouth of the wicked, and the deceitful mouth, are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.
3. And they hemmed me in with words of hating; and they fought against me without a cause.
4. In return for my love, they are my enemies; but I am in prayer.
5. And they put on me evil for good, and hating for my love.
6. Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand;
7. when he is judged, let him go out wicked; and let his prayer become sin;
8. let his days be few; and let another take his office;
9. his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;
10. and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;
11. let the moneylender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers plunder his labor;
12. let there be none giving mercy to him; nor any to have pity on his orphans;
13. let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation;
14. let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
15. let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16. because he did not remember to do mercy; and he persecuted the poor and needy man, even to kill the broken of heart.
17. Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; he also had no pleasure in blessing, and it was far from him.
18. And he put on cursing as his robe, and it came like water in his inward parts, and like oil into his bones.
19. Let it be to him as a garment he wraps in, and for a girdle that he always girds on.
20. This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21. But You, O Jehovah the Lord, work with me for Your name's sake; deliver me because Your mercy is good.
22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
23. As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
24. My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.
25. And I have become a reproach to them; they looked at me; they shook their heads.
26. O Jehovah my God, help me; save me according to Your mercy;
27. and they will know that this is Your hand; that You, O Jehovah, have done it.
28. They will curse, but You will bless; they rise up and are ashamed; but Your servant will be glad.
29. Let those who accuse me be clothed with shame; and cover themselves in their shame as with a robe.
30. I will greatly thank Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him in the midst of the multitude.
31. For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy; to save from those judging his soul.