1. O GOD of my praise! Keep not silence,
2. For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me and against me with lying tongues.
3. They have compassed me about also with words of hatred and have fought against me without a cause.
4. In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer.
5. And they have rewarded and laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6. Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand.
7. When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin.
8. Let his days be few; and let another take his office and charge. [Acts 1:20.]
9. Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10. Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes. [Gen. 4:12.]
11. Let the creditor and extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor.
12. Let there be none to extend or continue mercy and kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
13. Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15. Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth!–