^{1 Ref} Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

^{2 Ref} 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 Ref} They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

^{4 Ref} For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

^{5 Ref} And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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

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

^{8 Ref} Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

^{9 Ref} Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

^{10 Ref} Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

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

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

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

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

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

^{16 Ref} 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 Ref} As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

^{18 Ref} 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 Ref} Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

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

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

^{22 Ref} For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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

^{24 Ref} My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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

^{26 Ref} Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

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

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

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

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

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