^{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.