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UST PSA Chapter 109

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109 

A note to the worship leader: David wrote this psalm.

God, you are the one whom I praise,

so please answer my prayer

2 because evil and dishonest people slander me

and tell lies about me.

3 On all sides of me they say things that show that they hate me,

and they harm me for no reason.

4 I show them that I love them

but instead of being kind to me, they say that I have done evil things.

So I pray to God about it.

5 I do good things for them and they respond by doing evil things to me.

I love them and they respond by hating me.

6 So appoint a wicked judge who will judge my enemy,

and bring one of his enemies who will stand next to him and accuse him of doing evil things.

7 Let that judge declare that my enemy is guilty,

and may you judge that even his prayer to you is a sin.

8 Then cause him to die soon;

let people honor someone else rather than him.

9 Cause his children not to have a father anymore,

and cause his wife to become a widow.

10 Cause his children to wander far from their ruined homes,

begging and looking for food.

11 Let the people to whom he owed money seize all of his property;

let strangers take away everything that he worked to acquire.

12 Make sure that no one is faithfully loving to him;

make sure that no one pities his fatherless children.

13 Cause all his children to die,

so that there will not be another generation to continue his name.

14 Yahweh, consider all of the evil things that his ancestors did

and do not forgive the sins that his mother committed.

15 Please think about their sins always,

but cause everyone on earth to completely forget who they were.

16 I pray these things because that man, my enemy, was never faithful toward anyone as your covenant says we must be;

instead, he persecuted poor, needy, and grieving people

until they were dead.

17 He enjoyed cursing other people,

so now people are cursing him.

He did not want to bless other people,

so there will be no one who blesses him.

18 Cursing other people is as natural for him as wearing clothes.

Cursing other people is so much a part of who he is that it is like the water that he drinks;

it is so much a part of who he is that it is like olive oil that has soaked into his bones.

19 Cause those terrible curses to continually afflict him like clothes that cling to him

and like the belt that he wears every day.

20 Yahweh, let this curse be the way that you punish all of those who accuse me of doing bad things

and all of those who say evil things about me.

21 But you, Yahweh, my God, please be kind to me

because of who you are!

Rescue me from my enemies

because you faithfully love me as you promised.

22 I ask you to do this because I am destitute

and I am intensely sorrowful.

23 I think that my time to remain alive will end

as quickly as an evening shadow disappears.

I will be gone as quickly as a man shakes off a locust.

24 My knees are weak because I have fasted very often,

and my body has become very thin; any fat is gone.

25 The people who accuse me despise me;

when they see me, they insult me by shaking their heads at me.

26 Yahweh, the God whom I worship, please help me!

Rescue me because you faithfully love me!

27 Then my enemies will know

that you, Yahweh, are the one who has done it!

28 As for them, they will curse me, but you, in contrast, will bless me.

When they persecute me, the result will be that you make them ashamed,

but you cause me, your servant, to be glad!

29 Please let everyone see that those who accuse me are completely disgraceful!

Yes, cause other people to see that they are shameful as easily as someone sees the clothes that they wear!

30 I will thank Yahweh very much out loud;

I will praise him when I am among the crowd of people who are worshiping him.

31 I will do that because he defends poor people like me

in order to save us from those who would condemn us to die.