{"reference":"Psalms 109","verses":[{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":1,"text":"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":2,"text":"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.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":3,"text":"They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":4,"text":"For my love they are my adversaries: but I\ngive myself unto\n prayer.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":5,"text":"And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":6,"text":"Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":7,"text":"When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":8,"text":"Let his days be few;\nand let another take his office.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":9,"text":"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":10,"text":"Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek\ntheir bread also out of their desolate places.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":11,"text":"Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":12,"text":"Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":13,"text":"Let his posterity be cut off;\nand in the generation following let their name be blotted out.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":14,"text":"Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":15,"text":"Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":16,"text":"Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":17,"text":"As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":18,"text":"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.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":19,"text":"Let it be unto him as the garment\nwhich covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":20,"text":"            Let this\nbe the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":21,"text":"But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy\nis good, deliver thou me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":22,"text":"For I\nam poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":23,"text":"I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":24,"text":"My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":25,"text":"I became also a reproach unto them:\nwhen they looked upon me they shaked their heads.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":26,"text":"Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":27,"text":"That they may know that this\nis thy hand;\nthat\n thou, LORD, hast done it.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":28,"text":"Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":29,"text":"Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":30,"text":"I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book_name":"Psalms","chapter":109,"verse":31,"text":"For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save\nhim\n from those that condemn his soul.\n"}],"text":"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;\nFor the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.\nThey compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.\nFor my love they are my adversaries: but I\ngive myself unto\n prayer.\nAnd they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.\nSet thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.\nWhen he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.\nLet his days be few;\nand let another take his office.\nLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\nLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek\ntheir bread also out of their desolate places.\nLet the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.\nLet there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.\nLet his posterity be cut off;\nand in the generation following let their name be blotted out.\nLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\nLet them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.\nBecause that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.\nAs he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.\nAs 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.\nLet it be unto him as the garment\nwhich covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.\n            Let this\nbe the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.\nBut do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy\nis good, deliver thou me.\nFor I\nam poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.\nI am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.\nMy knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.\nI became also a reproach unto them:\nwhen they looked upon me they shaked their heads.\nHelp me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:\nThat they may know that this\nis thy hand;\nthat\n thou, LORD, hast done it.\nLet them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.\nLet mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.\nI will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.\nFor he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save\nhim\n from those that condemn his soul.\n","translation_id":"kjv","translation_name":"King James Version","translation_note":"Public Domain"}