Psalm

Psalm

1. Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!  (Ps. 83:1)
2. For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.  (Ps. 31:18)
3. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.  (Ps. 35:19;   John 15:25)
4. In return for my love they are my accusers, but I give myself to prayer.  (Prov. 17:13)
5. Thus they have rewarded me evil for good  (Ps. 35:7;   Ps 35:12), and hatred for my love.
8. Let his days be few, and let another take his office.  (Ps. 55:23;   Acts 1:20)
9. Let his children be fatherless  (Ex. 22:24), and his wife a widow.
10. Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.  (Job 15:23)
11. Let the creditor seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labour.  (Job 5:5;   Job 18:9)
18. As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it enter his body like water,  (Num. 5:22)  and like oil into his bones.  (Ps. 73:6)
19. Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, and for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
20. Let this be the Lord's reward to my accusers, and to those who speak evil against my person.
21. But You, O God the Lord, deal with me for Your name's sake; because Your mercy is good, deliver me.   (Ps. 25:11)
22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.  (Ps. 40:17)
23. I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.  (Ps. 102:11)
26. Help me, O Lord my God!  Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
27. That they may know that this is Your hand - - that You, Lord, have done it!  (Job 37:7)
28. Let them curse, but You bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice.  (2 Sam. 6:11-12;   Is. 65:14)
29. Let my accusers be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.  (Ps. 35:26)