Psalms 109

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;	1 [For the choirmaster Of David Psalm] God whom I praise, do not be silent!
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.	2 Wicked and deceiving words are being said about me, false accusations are cast in my teeth.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.	3 Words of hate fly al around me, though I give no cause for hostility.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.	4 In return for my friendship they denounce me, and al I can do is pray!
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.	5 They repay my kindness with evil, and friendship with hatred.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.	6 'Set up a wicked man against him as accuser to stand on his right.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.	7 At his trial may he emerge as guilty, even his prayer construed as a crime!
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.	8 'May his life be cut short, someone else take over his office,
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.	9 his children be orphaned, his wife be widowed.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.	10 'May his children wander perpetual y, beggars, driven from the ruins of their house,
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.	11 a creditor seize al his goods, and strangers make off with his earnings.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.	12 'May there be none left faithful enough to show him love, no one take pity on his orphans,
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.	13 the line of his descendants cut off, his name wiped out in one generation.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.	14 'May Yahweh never forget the crimes of his ancestors, and his mother's sins not be wiped out;
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.	15 may Yahweh keep these constantly in mind, to cut off the remembrance 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.	16 He had no thought of being loyal, but hounded the poor and the needy and the broken-hearted totheir death.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.	17 He had a taste for cursing; let it recoil on him! No taste for blessing; let it never come his way!
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.	18 Cursing has been the uniform he wore; let it soak into him like water, like oil right into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.	19 Let it be as a robe which envelops him completely, a sash which he always wears.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.	20 Let this be the salary Yahweh pays the accusers who blacken my name.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.	21 Yahweh, treat them as your name demands; as your faithful love is generous, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.	22 Poor and needy as I am, my wounds go right to the heart;
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.	23 I am passing away like a fading shadow, they have shaken me off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.	24 My knees are weak from lack of food, my body lean for lack of fat.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.	25 I have become the butt of their taunts, they shake their heads at the sight of me.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:	26 Help me, Yahweh my God, save me as your faithful love demands.
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.	27 Let them know that yours is the saving hand, that this, Yahweh, is your work.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.	28 Let them curse, provided that you bless; let their attacks bring shame to them and joy to yourservant!
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.	29 Let my accusers be clothed in disgrace, enveloped in a cloak of shame.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.	30 With generous thanks to Yahweh on my lips, I shall praise him before all the people,
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.	31 for he stands at the side of the poor, to save their lives from those who sit in judgement on them.