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1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

1God, whom I praise, do not be silent,

2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

2for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

3They surround me with hate-filled words, attacking me for no reason.

4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

4Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer.

5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

5They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

6Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side.

7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

7When he is judged, may he be found guilty; may his prayer be regarded as sin.

8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

8May his days be few; may another take over 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 be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

10May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

11May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired.

12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

12May no one extend gracious love to him, or show favor to his fatherless children.

13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

13May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.

14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

14May his ancestors' guilt be remembered in the LORD's presence, and may his mother's guilt not be erased.

15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

15May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

16For he didn't think to extend gracious love; he harassed to death the poor, the needy, and the broken hearted.

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

17He loved to curse—may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others — so may blessings be far from him.

18As 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.

18He wore curses like a garment— may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

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

19May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears.

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

20May this be the way the LORD repays my accuser, those who speak evil against me.

21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

21Now you, LORD my God, defend me for your name's sake; because your gracious love is good, deliver me!

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

22Indeed, I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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

23I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

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

24My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.

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

25I have become an object of derision to them— they shake their heads whenever they see me.

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

26Help me, LORD my God! Deliver me in accord with your gracious love!

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

27Then they will realize that your hand is in this— that you, LORD, have accomplished it.

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

28They will curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, while your servant rejoices.

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

29May my accusers be clothed with shame and wrapped in their humiliation as with a robe.

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

30I will give many thanks to the LORD with my mouth, praising him publicly,

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

31for he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to deliver him from his accusers.

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