1For the Conductor, by David, a psalm. O God of my praise, be not silent.
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they spoke to me with a false tongue.
3They have surrounded me with words of hate, and attacked me without cause.
4In return for my love they hate me; still, I am [a man of] prayer.
5They placed harm upon me in return for my favor, and hatred in return for my love.
6Appoint a wicked man over him; let an adversary stand at his right.
7When he is judged may he go out condemned; may his prayer be considered a sin.
8May his days be few; may another take his position.
9May his children be orphans and his wife a widow.
10May his children wander about and beg; may they seek charity from amid their ruins.
11May the creditor seize all that he has, and may strangers plunder [the fruits of] his labor.
12May he have none who extends him kindness, and may none be gracious to his orphans.
13May his posterity be cut off; may their name be erased in a later generation.
14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord, and the sin of his mother not be erased.
15May they be before the Lord always, and may He cut off their memory from the earth.
16Because he did not remember to do kindness, and he pursued the poor and destitute man and the broken-hearted, to kill [him].
17He loved the curse and it has come upon him; he did not desire blessing, and it has remained far from him.
18He donned the curse like his garment, and it came like water into his innards, like oil into his bones.
19May it be to him like a cloak in which he wraps himself, as a belt with which he girds himself always.
20This is from the Lord for the deeds of my enemies, and [for] those who speak evil against my soul.
21And You, God, my Lord, do [kindness] with me for the sake of Your Name; for Your kindness is good, rescue me!
22For I am poor and destitute, and my heart has died within me.
23Like the fleeting shadow I am banished, I am tossed about like the locust.
24My knees totter from fasting, and my flesh is lean without fat.
25And I became a disgrace to them; they see me and shake their heads.
26Help me, Lord, my God, deliver me according to Your kindness.
27Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it.
28Let them curse, but You will bless; they arose, but they will be shamed, and Your servant will rejoice.
29May my adversaries be clothed in humiliation; may they wrap themselves in their shame as in a cloak.
30I will thank the Lord profusely with my mouth, and amid the multitude I will praise Him,
31when He stands at the right of the destitute one to deliver him from the condemners of his soul.