1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; |
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. |
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. |
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. |
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. |
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. |
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. |
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. |
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. |
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. |
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. |
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. |
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. |
