KJV ¹ Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

VULC ¹ Psalmus David. [Dixit Dominus Domino meo :
Sede a dextris meis,
donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.

KJV ² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

VULC ² Virgam virtutis tuæ emittet Dominus ex Sion :
dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.

KJV ³ They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

VULC ³ Tecum principium in die virtutis tuæ
in splendoribus sanctorum :
ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te.

KJV ⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

VULC ⁴ Juravit Dominus, et non pœnitebit eum :
Tu es sacerdos in æternum
secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

KJV ⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

VULC ⁵ Dominus a dextris tuis ;
confregit in die iræ suæ reges.

KJV ⁶ Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

VULC ⁶ Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas ;
conquassabit capita in terra multorum.

KJV ⁷ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

VULC ⁷ De torrente in via bibet ;
propterea exaltabit caput.]

KJV ⁸ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

KJV ⁹ Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

KJV ¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

KJV ¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

KJV ¹² Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

KJV ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

KJV ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

KJV ¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

KJV ¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

KJV ¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

KJV ¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

KJV ¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

KJV ²⁰ Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

KJV ²¹ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

KJV ²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

KJV ²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

KJV ²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

KJV ²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

KJV ²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

KJV ²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

KJV ²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

KJV ²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

KJV ³⁰ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

KJV ³¹ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.