Hold ^anot 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 ^bwithout a cause. ⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. ⁵ And ^cthey 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 ^dlet his prayer become sin. ⁸ Let his days be few; and ^elet another take his office. ^{9 f}Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be continually ^gvagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. ^{11 h}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 i}Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their ^jname be blotted out. ^{14 k}Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother ^lbe blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may ^mcut 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 ⁿknees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. ²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me ^othey shaked their heads. ²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: ^{27 p}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 ^qservant 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.

Psalm 110