1. O God of my praise, be not silent:
2. For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,
3. And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.
4. For my love they are mine adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer.
5. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6. Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;
7. When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;
8. Let his days be few, let another take his office;
9. Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
10. Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
11. Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
12. Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
13. Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
15. Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: