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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Learn More About The Passion TranslationTehillim (Psalms) 109
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1Do not be silent, O Elohim of my praise!
2For the mouth of the wrong And the mouth of the deceiver Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a false tongue.
3They have surrounded me with words of hatred, And they attack me without a cause.
4In return for my love they accuse me, While I am in prayer.
5And they repay me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
6Appoint over him one who is wrong, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, let him be found wrong, And let his prayer become sin.
8Let his days be few, Let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
10And let his children always wander and beg, And seek food out of their ruins.
11Let the creditor lay a snare for all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labour.
12Let him have no one to extend loving-commitment, Nor any to show favour to his fatherless children.
13Let his descendants be cut off, Their name be blotted out in the next generation.
14Let the crookedness of his fathers Be remembered before יהוה, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them always be before יהוה, And let Him cut off their remembrance from the earth;
16Because he did not remember to show loving-commitment, But persecuted the poor and needy man; And the broken-hearted, to put to death.
17He also loved cursing, so let it come to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18And he put cursing on as with his garment, So let it enter his inward parts like water, Into his bones and like oil.
19Let it be to him like a cloak he wraps around him, And as a girdle that he always girds on.
20This is the reward of my accusers from יהוה, And to those speaking evil against my being.
21But You, O יהוה, Master, Deal with me for Your Name’s sake; Because Your loving-commitment is good, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is pierced within me.
23I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away like a locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh grows lean from fatness.
25And I, I have become a reproach to them; They see me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, O יהוה my Elohim! Save me according to Your loving-commitment,
27And let them know that this is Your hand. You, יהוה, You have done it!
28Let them curse, but You bless. They shall arise, but be ashamed, And let Your servant rejoice.
29Let my accusers put on shame, And be wrapped in their own confusion as in a cloak.
30I greatly thank יהוה with my mouth, And I praise Him in the midst of the throng.
31For He stands at the right hand of the poor, To save from those judging his being.
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