Psalm

 2 For the mouth of the wicked one and the mouth of deception have opened against me.+

They have spoken about me with the tongue of falsehood;+

 3 And with words of hatred they have surrounded me,+

And they keep fighting against me without cause.+

 4 For my love they keep resisting me;+

But on my part there is prayer.+

 5 And they render to me bad for good+

And hatred for my love.+

 6 Appoint over him someone wicked,

And may a resister*+ himself keep standing at his right hand.

 7 When he is judged, let him go forth as someone wicked;

And let his very prayer become a sin.+

 8 Let his days prove to be few;+

His office of oversight* let someone else take.+

 9 Let his sons become fatherless boys+

And his wife be a widow.+

10 And without fail let his sons go wandering about;+

And they must do begging,

And they must look for [food] from their desolate places.+

11 Let the usurer lay out traps for all that he has,+

And let strangers+ make plunder of his product of toil.+

12 May he come to have no one extending loving-kindness,+

And may there prove to be no one showing favor to his fatherless boys.

13 Let his posterity be for cutting off.+

In the following generation let their name be wiped out.+

14 Let the error of his forefathers be remembered to Jehovah,+

And the sin of his mother+—may it not be wiped out.+

15 Let them prove to be in front of Jehovah constantly;+

And may he cut off the remembrance* of them from the very earth;+

16 For the reason that he did not remember to exercise loving-kindness,+

But he kept pursuing the afflicted and poor man*+

And the one dejected at heart, to put [him] to death.+

17 And he kept loving the malediction,+ so that it came upon him;+

And he did not take delight in the blessing,+

So that it became far away from him;+

18 And he came to be clothed with malediction as his garment.+

So it came like waters into the midst of him+

And like oil into his bones.

19 May it prove to be for him like a garment with which he enwraps himself+

And as a girdle that he keeps girded about himself constantly.+

20 This is the wages from Jehovah of the one resisting me+

And of those speaking evil against my soul.+

21 But you are Jehovah the Sovereign+ Lord.

Deal with me for the sake of your name.+

Because your loving-kindness is good, deliver+ me.

22 For I am afflicted and poor,+

And my heart itself has been pierced* within me.+

23 Like a shadow when it declines, I am obliged to go away;+

I have been shaken off like a locust.

24 My knees themselves have swayed from fasting,+

And my very flesh has grown lean, without any oil.+

25 And to them I myself have become something reproachable.+

They see me—they begin wagging their head.+

26 Help me, O Jehovah my God;+

Save me according to your loving-kindness.+

27 And may they know that this is your hand;+

That you yourself, O Jehovah, have done it.+

28 Let them, for their part, pronounce a malediction,+

But may you, for your part, pronounce a blessing.+

They have risen up, but let them be ashamed,+

And let your own servant rejoice.+

29 Let those resisting me be clothed with humiliation,+

And let them enwrap themselves with their shame just as with a sleeveless coat.+

30 I shall laud Jehovah very much with my mouth,+

And in among many people I shall praise him.+

31 For he will stand at the right hand of the poor,+

To save [him] from those judging his soul.