1 Unto the end, a Psalm of David.
1 Unto the end. A psalm for David. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
2 O God conceal not my praise: because the mouth of the sinner, and the mouth of the deceitful man is open upon me.
2 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongue, and with words of hatred they have compassed me: and they have impugned me without cause.
3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
4 For that they should love me, they backbited me: but I prayed.
4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they set against me evil things for good: and hatred for my love.
5 And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint a sinner over him: and let the devil stand on his right hand.
6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come forth condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin.
7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8 Let his days be made few: and let another take his bishoprick.
8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9 Let his children be made orphans: and his wife a widow.
9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be transported wandering, and let them beg: and let them be cast out of their habitations.
10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11 Let the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers spoil his labours.
11 May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labors.
12 Let there be none to help him: neither let there be any to have pity on his pupils.
12 May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13 Let his children come to destruction: in one generation let his name be clean put out.
13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers return to memory in the sight of our Lord: and let not the sin of his mother 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 Let them be before our Lord always, and let the memory of them perish out of the earth:
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,
16 For that he remembered not to do mercy.
16 because he remembered not to shew mercy,
17 And he persecuted the poor, and needy man, and the compunct in heart to kill him.
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 to him: and he would not blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing as a garment, and it entered as water into his inner parts, and as oil in his bones.
18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.
19 Be it to him as a garment, wherewith he is covered: and as a girdle, wherewith he is always girded.
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 that detract from me before our Lord: and that speak evils against my soul.
20 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21 And thou Lord, Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Deliver me
21 But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
22 because I am needy and poor: and my heart is troubled within me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23 As a shadow when it declineth, am I taken away: and I am shaken as locusts.
23 I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24 My knees are weakened with fasting: and my flesh is changed by reason of oil.
24 My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25 And I am made a reproach to them: they saw me, and wagged their heads.
25 And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, o Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy.
26 Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.
27 And let them know that this is thy hand: & thou, o Lord, hast done it.
27 And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28 They will curse, and thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
28 They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Let them that detract from me, be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion, as with a double patched cloak.
29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.
30 I will confess to our Lord exceedingly with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
30 I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31 Because he hath stood on the right hand of the poor, that he might save my soul from the persecutors.
31 Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.