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
1 To victory, the psalm of David. God, hold thou not still my praising;
2for the mouth of the sinner, and the mouth of the guileful man, is opened on me. They spake against me with a guileful [or treacherous] tongue,
3and they encompassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without cause.
4For that thing that they should love me, they backbited me; but I prayed for them.
5And they setted against me evils for goods; and hatred for my love.
6Ordain thou a sinner on him; and the devil stand on his right half.
7When he is deemed, go he out condemned; and his prayer be made into sin.
8His days be made few; and another take his bishopric.
9His sons be made fatherless; and his wife a widow.
10His sons trembling be borne over, and beg; and be they cast out of their habitations.
11An usurer seek all his chattel; and aliens ravish his travails.
12None helper be to him; neither any be that have mercy on his motherless children.
13His sons be made into perishing; the name of him be done away in one generation.
14The wickedness of his fathers come again into mind in the sight of the Lord; and the sin of his mother be not done away.
15Be they made ever[more] against the Lord; and the mind of them perish from earth.
16For that thing that he thought not to do mercy, and he pursued a poor man and a beggar; and to slay a man compunct in heart.
17And he loved cursing, and it shall come to him; and he would not give blessing, and it shall be made far from him.
18And he clothed cursing as a cloth, and it entered as water into his inner things; and as oil in his bones.
19Be it made to him as a cloth, with which he is covered; and as a girdle, with which he is ever[more] girded.
20This is the work of them that back-bite me with the Lord; and that speak evils against my life.
21And thou, Lord God, do with me for thy name; for thy mercy is sweet. Deliver thou me,
22for I am needy and poor; and mine heart is troubled within me.
23I am taken away as a shadow, when it boweth away; and I am shaken away as locusts.
24My knees be made feeble with fasting; and my flesh was changed for oil.
25And I am made a shame to them; they saw me, and moved their heads.
26My Lord God, help thou me; make thou me safe by thy mercy.
27And they shall know, that this is thine hand; and thou, Lord, hast done it.
28And they shall curse, and thou shalt bless, they that rise against me, be shamed; but thy servant shall be glad.
29They that backbite me, be clothed with shame; and be they covered with their shame, as with a double cloth.
30I shall acknowledge to the Lord greatly with my mouth; and I shall praise him in the middle of many men.
31Which stood nigh on the right half of a poor man; to make safe my soul from pursuers.
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