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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

²¹ 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 is wounded within me.

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

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

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

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:

²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, LORD, hast done it.

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

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

³⁰ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

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

All Scripture has been taken from
The Holy Bible - KJV (King James Version)