Psalms Chapter 109
King James Bible Scriptures

Psalms 109:1

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

Psalms 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Psalms 109:4

For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.

Psalms 109:5

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalms 109:6

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Psalms 109:7

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Psalms 109:8

Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.

Psalms 109:9

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

Psalms 109:11

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Psalms 109:12

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psalms 109:14

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psalms 109:15

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalms 109:16

Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Psalms 109:17

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Psalms 109:18

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psalms 109:19

Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Psalms 109:20

[Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Psalms 109:21

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.

Psalms 109:22

For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psalms 109:25

I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Psalms 109:26

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

Psalms 109:27

That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done it.

Psalms 109:28

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

Psalms 109:29

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

Psalms 109:30

I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

Psalms 109:31

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul.

Psalms Chapter 109 (KJV)