WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:08.599 Psalm 109 - To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 00:00:10.710 --> 00:00:13.070 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:16.830 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are 00:00:16.830 --> 00:00:20.830 opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 00:00:21.509 --> 00:00:25.480 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:27.139 against me without a cause. 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:32.740 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. 00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:37.390 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:42.840 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 00:00:43.830 --> 00:00:48.530 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 00:00:49.299 --> 00:00:52.509 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. 00:00:53.279 --> 00:00:56.680 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:02.900 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:04.959 also out of their desolate places. 00:01:07.219 --> 00:01:10.399 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.109 strangers spoil his labour. 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:17.780 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any 00:01:17.830 --> 00:01:19.600 to favour his fatherless children. 00:01:21.250 --> 00:01:25.100 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:26.740 let their name be blotted out. 00:01:27.690 --> 00:01:32.020 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not 00:01:32.020 --> 00:01:34.090 the sin of his mother be blotted out. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:39.529 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off 00:01:39.530 --> 00:01:41.060 the memory of them from the earth. 00:01:42.179 --> 00:01:46.129 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:50.300 poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. 00:01:51.470 --> 00:01:56.320 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in 00:01:56.320 --> 00:01:58.730 blessing, so let it be far from him. 00:01:59.670 --> 00:02:04.350 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.440 let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 00:02:09.820 --> 00:02:13.640 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle 00:02:13.910 --> 00:02:15.309 wherewith he is girded continually. 00:02:16.410 --> 00:02:20.669 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of 00:02:20.670 --> 00:02:22.780 them that speak evil against my soul. 00:02:23.070 --> 00:02:27.960 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.070 mercy is good, deliver thou me. 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:35.220 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 00:02:36.450 --> 00:02:39.880 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed 00:02:39.880 --> 00:02:41.349 up and down as the locust. 00:02:41.930 --> 00:02:46.090 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 00:02:47.380 --> 00:02:51.250 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon 00:02:51.250 --> 00:02:52.440 me they shaked their heads. 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.659 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 00:02:58.049 --> 00:03:03.800 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it. 00:03:04.330 --> 00:03:08.890 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; 00:03:09.270 --> 00:03:10.720 but let thy servant rejoice. 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:15.860 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with 00:03:15.860 --> 00:03:17.700 their own confusion, as with a mantle. 00:03:18.789 --> 00:03:22.310 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:23.989 praise him among the multitude. 00:03:24.790 --> 00:03:28.880 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:30.710 from those that condemn his soul.