{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/109","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:25:23.273Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":109,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":108,"nextChapter":110,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Unto the end, a psalm for David. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"because he remembered not to show mercy, "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads, "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors "}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 109 (DRB)","markdown":"[Psalms 109](https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/109)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/109 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}