Psalms 109

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [For the choirmaster Of David Psalm] God whom I praise, do not be silent!	1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 Wicked and deceiving words are being said about me, false accusations are cast in my teeth.	2 O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
3 Words of hate fly al around me, though I give no cause for hostility.	3 They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
4 In return for my friendship they denounce me, and al I can do is pray!	4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 They repay my kindness with evil, and friendship with hatred.	5 And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 'Set up a wicked man against him as accuser to stand on his right.	6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7 At his trial may he emerge as guilty, even his prayer construed as a crime!	7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 'May his life be cut short, someone else take over his office,	8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 his children be orphaned, his wife be widowed.	9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 'May his children wander perpetual y, beggars, driven from the ruins of their house,	10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 a creditor seize al his goods, and strangers make off with his earnings.	11 May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12 'May there be none left faithful enough to show him love, no one take pity on his orphans,	12 May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 the line of his descendants cut off, his name wiped out in one generation.	13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 'May Yahweh never forget the crimes of his ancestors, and his mother's sins not be wiped out;	14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 may Yahweh keep these constantly in mind, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.'	15 May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16 He had no thought of being loyal, but hounded the poor and the needy and the broken-hearted totheir death.	16 because he remembered not to show mercy,
17 He had a taste for cursing; let it recoil on him! No taste for blessing; let it never come his way!	17 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18 Cursing has been the uniform he wore; let it soak into him like water, like oil right into his bones.	18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
19 Let it be as a robe which envelops him completely, a sash which he always wears.	19 May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the salary Yahweh pays the accusers who blacken my name.	20 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 Yahweh, treat them as your name demands; as your faithful love is generous, deliver me.	21 But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
22 Poor and needy as I am, my wounds go right to the heart;	22 for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 I am passing away like a fading shadow, they have shaken me off like a locust.	23 I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees are weak from lack of food, my body lean for lack of fat.	24 My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 I have become the butt of their taunts, they shake their heads at the sight of me.	25 And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
26 Help me, Yahweh my God, save me as your faithful love demands.	26 Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 Let them know that yours is the saving hand, that this, Yahweh, is your work.	27 And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, provided that you bless; let their attacks bring shame to them and joy to yourservant!	28 They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my accusers be clothed in disgrace, enveloped in a cloak of shame.	29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
30 With generous thanks to Yahweh on my lips, I shall praise him before all the people,	30 I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31 for he stands at the side of the poor, to save their lives from those who sit in judgement on them.	31 Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors