1To the Chief Musician. David’s. A Melody. 2For, the mouth of the lawless one and the mouth of the deceiver, against me, are open, They have spoken to me with false tongue; 3And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause: 4For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer: 5Yea they have returned unto me—Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love. 6 Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, stand at his right hand; 7When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin; 8Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take; 9Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow; 10Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins; 11Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil; 12Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children; 13Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out; 14Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out; 15Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth. 16Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay. 17Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him; 18Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones; 19Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on: 20This, be the reward of mine accusers, from Yahweh, even of them who are speaking wrongfully against my life. 21 But, thou, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me; 22For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me. 23As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust; 24My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness: 25So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head. 26Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness: 27That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it. 28They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless,—Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice; 29Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame. 30I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him; 31Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.