^[1]  HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;

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^[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.

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^[3]  They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

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^[4]  For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

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^[5]  And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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^[6]  Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

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^[7]  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

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^[8]  Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

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^[9]  Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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^[10]  Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

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^[11]  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

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^[12]  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

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^[13]  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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^[14]  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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^[15]  Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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^[16]  Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

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^[17]  As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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^[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.

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^[19]  Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

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^[20]  Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

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^[21]  But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

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^[22]  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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^[23]  I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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^[24]  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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^[25]  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

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^[26]  Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

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^[27]  That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

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^[28]  Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

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^[29]  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

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^[30]  I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

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^[31]  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

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