1 God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.
They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
and fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
but I am in prayer.
5 They have rewarded me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him.
Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty.
Let his prayer be turned into sin.
8 Let his days be few.
Let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be wandering beggars.
Let them be sought from their ruins.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has.
Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
neither let there be anyone to have pity on 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 by Yahweh.
Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Yahweh continually,
that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
16 because he didn’t remember to show kindness,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
the broken in heart, to kill them.
17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.
It came into his inward parts like water,
like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,
for the belt that is always around him.
20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,
of those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake,
because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
22 for I am poor and needy.
My heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow.
I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting.
My body is thin and lacks fat.
25 I have also become a reproach to them.
When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, Yahweh, my God.
Save me according to your loving kindness;
27 that they may know that this is your hand;
that you, Yahweh, have done it.
28 They may curse, but you bless.
When they arise, they will be shamed,
but your servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.
Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.
Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
to save him from those who judge his soul.
1 Vir die musiekleier. Van Dawid. 'n Psalm. o God van my lof, moenie swyg nie!
2 Want hulle het die mond van die goddelose en die mond van bedrog teen my oopgemaak; hulle het met my gespreek met 'n leuenagtige tong,
3 en my met woorde van haat omring; ja, hulle het my sonder oorsaak beveg.
4 Vir my liefde behandel hulle my vyandig, terwyl ek tog gedurig bid.
5 En hulle het my kwaad vir goed opgelê en haat vir my liefde.
6 Stel 'n goddelose oor hom en laat 'n teëstander staan aan sy regterhand.
7 As hy geoordeel word, laat hom as skuldige uitgaan, en laat sy gebed sonde word.
8 Laat sy dae min wees; laat 'n ander sy amp neem.
9 Laat sy kinders wese word en sy vrou 'n weduwee;
10 en laat sy kinders oral rondswerwe en bedel en brood soek, weg van hulle puinhope af.
11 Laat die skuldeiser alles neem wat hy het, en laat vreemdes sy goed buitmaak.
12 Laat hom niemand hê wie se guns bestendig is, en laat niemand hom oor sy wese ontferm nie.
13 Laat sy nakomelinge uitgeroei word; laat hulle naam uitgedelg word in die volgende geslag.
14 Laat die HERE gedagtig wees aan die ongeregtigheid van sy vaders, en laat die sonde van sy moeder nie uitgedelg word nie.
15 Laat die altyddeur voor die HERE wees, dat Hy hulle gedagtenis van die aarde af kan uitroei;
16 omdat hy nie daaraan gedink het om guns te bewys nie, maar die ellendige en behoeftige man vervolg het en die moedelose van hart, om hom dood te maak.
17 Ja, hy het die vloek liefgehad en -- dit het oor hom gekom; en hy het geen welbehae gehad in die seën nie en -- dit het ver van hom af gebly.
18 Hy het die vloek aangetrek soos 'n kleed en -- dit het soos water in sy binneste gekom en soos olie in sy gebeente.
19 Laat dit vir hom wees soos 'n kleed waarin hy hom toedraai, en 'n gordel wat hy altyddeur ombind.
20 Laat dit die loon van my teëstanders wees vanweë die HERE, en van hulle wat kwaad spreek teen my.
21 Maar U, o HERE Here, maak dit goed met my om u Naam ontwil; omdat u goedertierenheid goed is, red my.
22 Want ek is ellendig en behoeftig, en my hart is deurwond in my binneste.
23 Ek gaan heen soos 'n skaduwee as dit lank word; ek is afgeskud soos 'n sprinkaan.
24 My knieë knik van vas, en my vlees het maer geword, sonder vet.
25 En ,k het vir hulle 'n smaad geword; as hulle my sien, skud hulle hul hoof.
26 Help my, HERE my God! Verlos my na u goedertierenheid,
27 sodat hulle kan weet dat dit u hand is: U, o HERE, het dit gedoen.
28 Laat hulle vloek, maar U, seën U. Hulle het opgestaan en beskaamd geword, maar u kneg is bly.
29 Laat my teëstanders beklee word met smaad en hulle toedraai in hul skande soos in 'n mantel.
30 Ek sal die HERE hardop loof met my mond, en onder baie sal ek Hom prys;
31 want Hy staan aan die regterhand van die behoeftige om hom te verlos van die wat hom veroordeel.