Dec 28, 2022
My God, whom I
praise,
do not remain silent,
for people who are
wicked and deceitful
have opened their mouths against
me;
they have spoken against me with lying
tongues.
With words of
hatred they surround me;
they attack me without cause.
In return for my
friendship they accuse me,
but I am a man of prayer.
They repay me evil
for good,
and hatred for my friendship.
Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;
let an accuser stand at his right
hand.
When he is tried, let
him be found guilty,
and may his prayers
condemn him.
May his days be
few;
may another take his place of
leadership.
May his children be
fatherless
and his wife a widow.
May his children be
wandering beggars;
may they be driven from their ruined
homes.
May a
creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his
labor.
May no one extend
kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless
children.
May his descendants
be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next
generation.
May the iniquity of
his fathers be remembered before the Lord;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted
out.
May their sins
always remain before the Lord,
that he may blot out their name from the
earth.