Psalms 108

¹Unto the end, a Psalm of David.

²O God conceal not my praise: because the mouth of the sinner, and the mouth of the deceitful man is open upon me.

³They have spoken against me with deceitful tongue, and with words of hatred they have compassed me: and they have impugned me without cause.

⁴For that they should love me, they backbited me: but I prayed.

⁵And they set against me evil things for good: and hatred for my love.

⁶Appoint a sinner over him: and let the devil stand on his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him come forth condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸Let his days be made few: and let another take his bishoprick.

⁹Let his children be made orphans: and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be transported wandering, and let them beg: and let them be cast out of their habitations.

¹¹Let the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers spoil his labours.

¹²Let there be none to help him: neither let there be any to have pity on his pupils.

¹³Let his children come to destruction: in one generation let his name be clean put out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers return to memory in the sight of our Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before our Lord always, and let the memory of them perish out of the earth:

¹⁶For that he remembered not to do mercy.

¹⁷And he persecuted the poor, and needy man, and the compunct in heart to kill him.

¹⁸And he loved cursing, and it shall come to him: and he would not blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing as a garment, and it entered as water into his inner parts, and as oil in his bones.

¹⁹Be it to him as a garment, wherewith he is covered: and as a girdle, wherewith he is always girded.

²⁰This is the work of them that detract from me before our Lord: and that speak evils against my soul.

²¹And thou Lord, Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Deliver me

²²because I am needy and poor: and my heart is troubled within me.

²³As a shadow when it declineth, am I taken away: and I am shaken as locusts.

²⁴My knees are weakened with fasting: and my flesh is changed by reason of oil.

²⁵And I am made a reproach to them: they saw me, and wagged their heads.

²⁶Help me, o Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy.

²⁷And let them know that this is thy hand: & thou, o Lord, hast done it.

²⁸They will curse, and thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

²⁹Let them that detract from me, be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion, as with a double patched cloak.

³⁰I will confess to our Lord exceedingly with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.

³¹Because he hath stood on the right hand of the poor, that he might save my soul from the persecutors.