The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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1 For the leader. A psalm of David: God, whom I praise, don't remain silent!
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Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me, spoken against me with lying tongues,
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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 surrounded me with hateful words, and attacked me without cause.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my love they became my accusers, even though I prayed for them.
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 They repay me evil for good and hatred for my love.
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 [They say,] "Appoint a wicked man over him, may an accuser stand at his right.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, may even his plea be counted a sin.
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 May his days be few, may someone else take his position.
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 May creditors seize all he owns and strangers make off with his earnings.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 May no one treat him kindly, and may no one take pity on his orphaned children.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be erased within a generation.
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 May the wrongs of his ancestors be remembered by ADONAI, and may the sin of his mother not be erased;
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 may they always be before ADONAI, so he can cut off all memory of them from the earth.
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 For he did not remember to show kindness but hounded the downtrodden, the poor and the brokenhearted to death.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 He loved cursing; may it recoil on him! He didn't like blessing; may it stay far from him!
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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 He clothed himself with cursing as routinely as with his coat; May it enter inside him as easily as water, as easily as oil into his bones.
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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.
19 May it cling to him like the coat he wears, like the belt he wraps around himself."
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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 This is what my adversaries want ADONAI to do, those who speak evil against me.
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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But you, God, ADONAI, treat me as your name demands; rescue me, because your grace is good.
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart within me is wounded.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 Like a lengthening evening shadow, I am gone; I am shaken off like a locust.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I have become the object of their taunts; when they see me, they shake their heads.
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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, ADONAI, my God! Save me, in keeping with your grace;
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 so that they will know that this comes from your hand, that you, ADONAI, have done it.
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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28 Let them go on cursing; but you, bless! When they attack, let them be put to shame; but let your servant rejoice.
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with confusion, let them wear their own shame like a robe.
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will eagerly thank ADONAI with my mouth, I will praise him right there in the crowd,
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 because he stands alongside a needy person to defend him from unjust accusers.
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The King James Version is in the public domain.