4. Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5. And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6. Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11. May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14. 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.
15. May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16. because he remembered not to show mercy,
17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18. 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.
19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21. But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
22. for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.