Psalm 109

¹Of David. To You, O Lord, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

¹A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.

²¹He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

²²O Lord, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!

¹⁴“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

⁴You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

²Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

³What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

¹³For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

¹⁹Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

¹³where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

⁴Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

⁷For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

²⁰For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

¹⁷All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

⁷And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

⁸The Lord has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

²⁰Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

⁷For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

³⁴Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

¹²Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

¹³But my prayer to You, O Lord, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

¹⁶But I call to God, and the Lord saves me.

¹⁷Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

¹¹But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

¹²In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

²⁰Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

¹³If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

¹²For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

¹³But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

⁴They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

³¹Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

⁷For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

⁸May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

¹Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

²⁵Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

⁴“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

²The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

²⁷And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

⁹Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

²⁷The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

¹⁰All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

¹³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

³Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

¹⁶“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

¹⁷He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”

²³But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

⁵So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

²⁴My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

²¹Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

³We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

²⁵I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

¹²When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

¹³But Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

²Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

²⁷Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.

¹⁵They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

⁸Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

⁹The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

⁵The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

³³A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

³⁴You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

⁵⁰a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

⁵¹They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

²⁹and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

⁹A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

¹⁰A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

¹⁸He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

⁸O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

⁹Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

¹³For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

²⁵All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

¹¹When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

⁵⁰As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.

⁷The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

²⁸For the Lord loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

¹⁹He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

³¹Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.

³²You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

¹⁰You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The Lord will blot out his name from under heaven

⁵You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

⁵Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

²³But You, O Lord, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

²⁵I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

²⁹May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

⁸But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

⁹And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the Lord. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

¹⁶But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

⁸You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

⁹Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

¹⁵You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord God will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

²²Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁸The Lord is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

¹³For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

³³Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’

³⁴In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

¹¹Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the Lord has told him so.

¹²Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

²In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

²For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

¹⁴The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

¹²By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

¹³Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah

⁶therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord God, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

⁴You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

¹⁰and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

¹¹For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

⁶Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

²²May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

³When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

⁴“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

⁵Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹²Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

¹³though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

¹⁸The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹⁴Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

²³He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The Lord our God will destroy them.

⁴⁴The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the Lord will bring your evil back upon your head.

¹⁹The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”

⁵The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.

⁶He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

¹⁵who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

¹⁶hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

³For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

³Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

¹⁵But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

¹A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

⁴My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

⁶But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

²⁷When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

¹⁹And the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

²Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

¹⁵For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

¹⁰because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

¹¹My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

¹³So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the Lord sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

³When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

⁴For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

²After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

¹²Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹³Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

¹⁴I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

¹⁰I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

⁶But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

⁷All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

³For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

¹⁹You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

²⁰Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

⁹because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

¹⁰I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

⁴I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

¹³Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

⁸⁶All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

¹³But my prayer to You, O Lord, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

⁷During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

¹²For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

⁷He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

³⁶At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.

³⁷Answer me, O Lord! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the Lord, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”

¹⁹“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

¹⁶“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.

²Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

³²God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

³³Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

²⁰I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

¹⁷The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹²But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

²³For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

²²Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

¹¹But the Lord is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

¹⁷The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

¹⁸The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹⁰Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

¹⁸Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

²³You who fear the Lord, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!

¹Of David. I give You thanks with all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.

¹²How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?

¹³I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.

¹²He says: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly.”

⁵The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is the shade on your right hand.

⁸I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

¹²I know that the Lord upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

²³Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

⁵The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.