To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 Netylėk, mano gyriaus Dieve.

2 Nedorėlio burna ir klastingojo burna prieš mane atsivėrė. Jie kalba prieš mane melagingais liežuviais.

3 Neapykantos žodžiais jie apsupo mane ir puola mane nekaltą.

4 Už mano meilę jie kaltina mane, bet aš meldžiuosi.

5 Piktu už gera jie man atlygina ir neapykanta už meilę.

6 Atiduok tokį nedorėlių valiai, te šėtonas stovi jo dešinėje.

7 Teisme tebūna jis pasmerktas, jo malda tebūna nuodėmė.

8 Tebūna jo gyvenimas trumpas. Jo tarnystę tegauna kitas.

9 Jo vaikai tepalieka našlaičiais ir žmona­našle.

10 Elgetomis ir benamiais tegu tampa jo vaikai, tebūna jie išmesti iš savų sunaikintų namų.

11 Skolintojas tepasiglemžia jo turtą ir svetimieji jo uždarbį teišgrobsto.

12 Nė vienas jo tenesigaili ir tenebūna kas užjaustų jo našlaičius.

13 Jo palikuonys tesunyksta. Kitoje kartoje teišdyla jų vardas.

14 Viešpats teatsimena jo tėvų kaltes, ir jo motinos nuodėmė tenebūna išdildyta.

15 Tegu nuolat Viešpats juos stebi, kad nuo žemės nušluotų jų atminimą.

16 Nes neparodė jis gailestingumo, bet persekiojo beturtį ir vargšą, kėsinosi nužudyti sudužusį širdyje.

17 Jis mėgo prakeikimą, tegu jis užklumpa jį; jis nemėgo palaiminimo, tebūna jis toli nuo jo.

18 Jis apsivilko prakeikimu kaip drabužiu, todėl kaip vanduo jis teįsisunkia į kūną, kaip aliejus į kaulus.

19 Jis tebūna jam kaip drabužis, kuris dengia jo kūną, kaip juosta, kuria jis susijuosia.

20 Taip tegul užmoka Viešpats mano priešininkams ir tiems, kurie kalba pikta prieš mane.

21 Bet Tu, Viešpatie Dieve, sustiprink mane dėl savojo vardo, gelbėk dėl savo gailestingumo.

22 Aš esu vargšas ir beturtis, mano širdis sužeista.

23 Nykstu kaip šešėlis, mane nešioja kaip vėjas skėrį.

24 Mano keliai nuo pasninko linksta, sulyso mano kūnas.

25 Aš jiems tapau pajuoka. Matydami mane, jie kraipė galvas.

26 Padėk man, Viešpatie, mano Dieve, išgelbėk mane, būdamas gailestingas.

27 Viešpatie, težino jie, jog tai Tavo ranka padarė.

28 Jie tegul keikia, bet Tu laimink! Kai jie pakyla, tebūna sugėdinti, o Tavo tarnas tesidžiaugia.

29 Teapsivelka mano priešininkai nešlove, juos gėda kaip drabužis teapgaubia.

30 Savo burna garsiai girsiu Viešpatį, girsiu Jį minioje.

31 Jis stovi beturčio dešinėje, gina jį nuo pasmerkėjų.