Psalms 109
109
God, It’s Time for Vengeance
To the Pure and Shining One
A poetic song by King David
1God of all my praise, don’t stand silently by, aloof to my pain,
2while the wicked slander me with their lies.
Even right in front of my face they lie through their teeth.
3I’ve done nothing to them, but they still surround me
with their venomous words of hatred and vitriol.
4Though I love them, they stand accusing me like Satan
for what I’ve never done.
I will pray until I become prayer itself. # 109:4 In the face of accusation and slander, David wrote in Hebrew literally “I am prayer!”
5They continually repay me with evil when I show them good.
They give me hatred when I show them love.
6-7Show him how it feels! Let accusing liars be raised up against him,
like Satan himself standing right next to him.
And let him be declared guilty by a wicked judge.
May even his prayers be seen as sinful!
8Shorten his life and let another replace him!
9Make his wife a widow and his children orphans!
10Let them wander as beggars in the street,
like homeless vagabonds, evicted from their ruins!
11Let the creditors seize his entire estate,
and strangers, like vultures, take all that’s left!
12Let no one be kind to him by showing pity to his fatherless children!
13May all his posterity die with him! Cut down his family tree!
14-15And may all the sins of his ancestors be recorded,
remembered before you, forever!
Cut off even the memory of his family from the face of the earth,
16because he never once showed love or kindness to others,
but persecuted the poor, the brokenhearted, and afflicted ones,
even putting them to death!
17Since he enjoyed cursing them,
may all his curses now come raining back on him
until it all overwhelms him with misfortune!
Since he refused to bless others,
God, withhold every single blessing from him!
18Bitterness, such vile vindictiveness, was upon everything he did.
Cursing was his lifestyle.
19-20So smother him now with his own curses as his just reward.
This will be the Lord’s punishment upon him and
all my lying accusers who speak evil against me.
21But now, O Yahweh-God, make yourself real to me
like you promised me you would. # 109:21 The Hebrew text reads “for your name’s sake.”
Because of your constant love and your heart-melting kindness, come be my hero and deliver me!
22I’m so broken, needy and hurting.
My heart is pierced through and I’m so wounded.
23I’m slipping down a dark slope, shaken to the core, and helpless.
24All my fasting has left me so weak I can hardly stand.
Now I’m shriveled up, nothing but skin and bones.
25I’m the example of failure and shame to all who see me.
They just walk by me, shaking their heads.
26You have to help me, O Lord God!
My true hero, come to my rescue and save me,
for you are loving and kind.
27Then everyone will know that you have won my victory,
and they will all say to the Lord, “You have finished it!”
28So let them curse me if they want,
but I know you will bless me!
All their efforts to destroy me will fail,
but I will succeed and be glad.
29So let my Satan-like accusers fail!
Make them look ridiculous if they try to come against me.
Clothe them with a robe of guilty shame from this day on!
30But I will give my thanks to you over and over,
and everyone will hear my lavish praises.
31For you stand right next to the broken ones
as their saving hero to rescue them from all their accusers!
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109
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David.
1Do not remain silent,
O God of my praise!
2#Ps 63:1; 84:2 For the mouth of the wicked and deceitful
are opened against me;
they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3#Ps 79:10; 80:5 They encircled me with words of hatred
and fought against me without cause.
4#Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8 In return for my love they are my adversaries,
but I give myself to prayer.
5#Ps 42:11; 43:5 They have rewarded me evil for good
and hatred for my love.
6#2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9 Set a wicked man against him,
and let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7#Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned,
and let his prayer be reckoned as sin.
8#Job 35:10; Ps 63:6 Let his days be few,
and let another take his office.
9#Ps 38:6; 18:2 Let his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
10#Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17 Let his children be wandering beggars;
let them seek their bread far from their desolate places.
11#Ps 42:5; 43:5 Let the creditor seize all that he has;
let the strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him,
neither let there be any to pity his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off,
and in the generation following let his name be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord,
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before the Lord continually,
that the Lord may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16For he did not remember to show kindness,
but pursued the poor and needy and broken-hearted
to their death.
17As he loved cursing,
so let it come over him;
as he did not delight in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
18As he clothed himself with cursing like a garment,
so let it soak into him like water,
and like oil into his bones.
19Let it be unto him as the garment that covers him,
and a belt that he continually wears.
20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord,
and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21But You, O God my Lord,
work on my behalf for your name’s sake;
because your mercy is good, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like a shadow in the evening;
I am tossed as the locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting,
and my body is thin with no fat.
25I am a reproach to my accusers;
when they look upon me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, O Lord my God!
Save me according to Your mercy,
27that they may know that this is by Your hand,
that You, O Lord, have done it.
28Let them curse, but You will bless;
when they arise, let them be ashamed,
but let Your servant rejoice.
29Let my adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace like a cloak.
30I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
indeed, I will praise Him among the multitude.
31For He stands at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
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