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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Psalm 109
Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.
For the music director. A Psalm of David.
1God of my praise,
Do not be silent!
2For they have opened a #109:2 Lit wicked mouth and the deceitfulwicked and deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken #109:2 Lit withagainst me with a lying tongue.
3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And have fought against me without cause.
4In return for my love they act as my accusers;
But I am in prayer.
5So they have #109:5 Lit laid upon merepaid me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
6¶Appoint a wicked person over him,
And may an #109:6 Or adversary, Satanaccuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, may he come out guilty,
And may his prayer become sin.
8May his days be few;
May another take his office.
9May his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
10May his children wander about and beg;
And may they seek sustenance #109:10 Or out of their desolate placesfar from their ruined homes.
11May the creditor #109:11 Lit ensnare, strike atseize everything that he has,
And may strangers plunder the product of his labor.
12May there be none to #109:12 Lit continueextend kindness to him,
Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
13May his descendants be #109:13 Lit for cutting offeliminated;
May their name be wiped out in a following generation.
14¶May the guilt of his fathers be remembered #109:14 Lit tobefore the Lord,
And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.
15May they be before the Lord continually,
So that He may eliminate their memory from the earth;
16Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the afflicted and needy person,
And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.
17He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
18But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered #109:18 Lit his inward partshis body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
19May it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself,
And as a belt which he constantly wears around himself.
20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,
And of those who speak evil against my soul.
21¶But You, #109:21 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name;
Because Your mercy is good, rescue me;
22For I am afflicted and needy,
And #109:22 Lit one has pierced my heart within memy heart is wounded within me.
23I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.
24My knees #109:24 Or totterare weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
25I also have become a disgrace to them;
When they see me, they shake their head.
26¶Help me, Lord my God;
Save me according to Your mercy.
27 # 109:27 Or That they may know And may they know that this is Your hand;
You, Lord, have done it.
28They will curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they will be ashamed,
But Your servant will be glad.
29 # 109:29 Or My accusers will be May my accusers be clothed with dishonor,
And #109:29 Or they will covermay they cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30¶With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord;
And I will praise Him in the midst of many.
31For He stands at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.
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