Holman Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
1For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. God of my praise, do not be silent. | 1O God, whom I praise, don’t stand silent and aloof |
2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues. | 2while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me. |
3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause. | 3They surround me with hateful words and fight against me for no reason. |
4In return for my love they accuse me, but I continue to pray. | 4I love them, but they try to destroy me with accusations even as I am praying for them! |
5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love. | 5They repay evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
6Set a wicked person over him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. | 6They say, “Get an evil person to turn against him. Send an accuser to bring him to trial. |
7When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let his prayer be counted as sin. | 7When his case comes up for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins. |
8Let his days be few; let another take over his position. | 8Let his years be few; let someone else take his position. |
9Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. | 9May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow. |
10Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes. | 10May his children wander as beggars and be driven from their ruined homes. |
11Let a creditor seize all he has; let strangers plunder what he has worked for. | 11May creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers take all he has earned. |
12Let no one show him kindness, and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children. | 12Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children. |
13Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation. | 13May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in the next generation. |
14Let his ancestors' guilt be remembered before the LORD, and do not let his mother's sin be blotted out. | 14May the LORD never forget the sins of his fathers; may his mother’s sins never be erased from the record. |
15Let their sins always remain before the LORD, and let Him erase all memory of them from the earth. | 15May the LORD always remember these sins, and may his name disappear from human memory. |
16For he did not think to show kindness, but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted in order to put them to death. | 16For he refused all kindness to others; he persecuted the poor and needy, and he hounded the brokenhearted to death. |
17He loved cursing--let it fall on him; he took no delight in blessing--let it be far from him. | 17He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don’t you bless him. |
18He wore cursing like his coat-- let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil. | 18Cursing is as natural to him as his clothing, or the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats. |
19Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears. | 19Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.” |
20Let this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me. | 20May those curses become the LORD’s punishment for my accusers who speak evil of me. |
21But You, Yahweh my Lord, deal kindly with me because of Your name; deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love. | 21But deal well with me, O Sovereign LORD, for the sake of your own reputation! Rescue me because you are so faithful and good. |
22For I am afflicted and needy; my heart is wounded within me. | 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is full of pain. |
23I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust. | 23I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust. |
24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body is emaciated. | 24My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones. |
25I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn. | 25I am a joke to people everywhere; when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn. |
26Help me, LORD my God; save me according to Your faithful love | 26Help me, O LORD my God! Save me because of your unfailing love. |
27so they may know that this is Your hand and that You, LORD, have done it. | 27Let them see that this is your doing, that you yourself have done it, LORD. |
28Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice. | 28Then let them curse me if they like, but you will bless me! When they attack me, they will be disgraced! But I, your servant, will go right on rejoicing! |
29My accusers will be clothed with disgrace; they will wear their shame like a cloak. | 29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may their humiliation cover them like a cloak. |
30I will fervently thank the LORD with my mouth; I will praise Him in the presence of many. | 30But I will give repeated thanks to the LORD, praising him to everyone. |
31For He stands at the right hand of the needy to save him from those who would condemn him. | 31For he stands beside the needy, ready to save them from those who condemn them. |
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