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 Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
4For my love they are my adversaries:
But I give myself unto prayer.
5And they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
6Set thou a wicked man over him;
And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;
And let his prayer be turned into sin.
8Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before Jehovah continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16Because he remembered not to show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.
19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
22For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
25I am become also a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head.
26Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
27That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
28Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
29Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from them that judge his soul.
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