PSALMS 诗篇109

1O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,
2for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
3With words of hatred 1 they surround me; they attack me without cause.
4In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
6Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn 2 him.
8May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
11May a creditor 3 seize all he has; may strangers plunder 4 the fruits of his labor 5.
12May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
13May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted 6 out from the next generation.
14May the iniquity 7 of his fathers be remembered before the Lord ; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15May their sins always remain before the Lord , that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy 8 and the brokenhearted.
17He loved to pronounce a curse- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing- may it be far from him.
18He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
20May this be the Lord 's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
21But you, O Sovereign Lord , deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust 9.
24My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, O Lord my God; save me in accordance with your love.
27Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O Lord , have done it.
28They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
29My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30With my mouth I will greatly extol 10 the Lord ; in the great throng 11 I will praise him.
31For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.