1“For the leader of the music. A psalm of David.” O God of my praise! be not silent!

2For the mouths of the wicked and the deceitful are opened against me; They speak against me with a lying tongue.

3They assault me on every side with words of hatred; They fight against me without a cause.

4For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer.

5They repay me evil for good, And hatred for love.

6Set thou a wicked man over him, And let an adversary stand at his right hand!

7When he is judged, may he be condemned, And may his prayer be a crime!

8May his days be few, And another take his office!

9May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow!

10May his children be vagabonds and beggars, And from their ruined dwellings seek their bread!

11May a creditor seize on all that he hath, And a stranger plunder his substance!

12May there be none to show him compassion, And none to pity his fatherless children!

13May his posterity be cut off; In the next generation may his name be blotted out!

14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, And may the sin of his mother never be blotted out!

15May they be before the LORD continually; And may he cut off their memory from the earth!

16Because he remembered not to show pity, But persecuted the afflicted and the poor man, And sought the death of the broken-hearted.

17As he loved cursing, let it come upon him; As he delighted not in blessing, let it be far from him!

18May he be clothed with cursing as with a garment; May it enter like water into his bowels, And like oil into his bones!

19May it be to him like the robe that covereth him, Like the girdle with which he is constantly girded!

20May this be the wages of mine adversaries from the LORD, And of them that speak evil against me!

21But do thou, O LORD, my God! take part with me, For thine own name's sake! Because great is thy mercy, O deliver me!

22For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

23I am going like a shadow; I am driven away as the locust.

24My knees totter from fasting, And my flesh faileth of fatness.

25I am a reproach to my enemies; They gaze at me; they shake their heads.

26Help me, O LORD, my God! O save me, according to thy mercy!

27That they may know that this is thy hand; That thou, O Lord! hast done it!

28Let them curse, but do thou bless! When they arise, let them be put to shame; But let thy servant rejoice!

29May my enemies be clothed with ignominy; May they be covered with their shame, as with a mantle!

30I will earnestly praise the LORD with my lips; In the midst of the multitude I will praise him.

31For he standeth at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who would condemn him.