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
Prayer Against an Accuser
1For the music director, a psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.
2For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
3with hateful words surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
4In return for my love they are my accusers, but I am in prayer.
5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6Set a wicked man over him, let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be as sin.
8Let his days be few, let another take his position.
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children wander and beg and may they search in their ruins.
11Let a creditor seize all he has, and may strangers plunder his labor.
12Let no one show him mercy, or take pity on his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off, and his name be blotted out in the next generation.
14May the guilt of his fathers be remembered before Adonai, the sin of his mother never blotted out.
15Let their sins be before Adonai continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16For he never remembered to show mercy. But he persecuted a poor and needy man, crushed in spirit, to put him to death.
17How he loved cursing—may it fall on him! He had no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him!
18He wore cursing like his robe, until it filled his belly like water, and his bones like oil.
19May it be like a cloak wrapped around him, like a belt tied around him always.
20Let this be Adonai’s reward to my accusers, and to those who speak evil against me.
21But You, Adonai my Lord, deal with me for Your Name’s sake. Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
22For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23I fade away like an evening shadow, shaken off like a locust.
24My knees totter from fasting, and my flesh is lean, with no fat.
25And I have become a taunt to them. When they see me, they wag their head.
26Help me, Adonai my God, Save me through Your lovingkindness.
27Let them know that it is Your hand— that You, Adonai, have done it.
28They may curse, but You bless. When they arise, they will be ashamed, but Your servant will rejoice.
29My accusers will be clothed in disgrace, and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30I will greatly thank Adonai with my mouth, and in the midst of a throng will I praise Him.
31For He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul.
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