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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1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise. 2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue 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 mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier. 5And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship. 6Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand. 7Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne. 8Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge. 9Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe. 10Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed. 11Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour. 12Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children. 13Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out. 14Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away. 15But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth. 16Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him. 17As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him. 18As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones. 19Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded. 20Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule. 21But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good) 22Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me. 23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper. 24My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes. 25I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads. 26Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie. 27And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it. 28Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce. 29Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke. 30I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude. 31For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.
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