1. Do not remain silent,O God of my praise!
2. For the mouth of the wicked and deceitfulare opened against me;they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3. They encircled me with words of hatredand fought against me without cause.
4. In return for my love they are my adversaries,but I give myself to prayer.
5. They have rewarded me evil for goodand hatred for my love.
6. Set a wicked man against him,and let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned,and let his prayer be reckoned as sin.
8. Let his days be few,and let another take his office.
9. Let his children be fatherlessand his wife a widow.
10. Let his children be wandering beggars;let them seek their bread far from their desolate places.
11. Let the creditor seize all that he has;let the strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him,neither let there be any to pity his fatherless children.
13. Let his posterity be cut off,and in the generation following let his name be blotted out.