1<\/sup>Unto the end, a psalm for David.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>because he remembered not to show mercy,<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors<\/span> <\/p>\n