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Psalms 109

1 David being falsely accused by flatters unto Saúl, praieth God to help him and to destroy his enemies. 8 And under them he speaketh of Judas the traitor unto Jesus Christ, and of all the like enemies of the children of God 27 And desireth so to be delivered, that his enemies maie knowe the work to be of God. 30 Then doeth he promise to give praises unto God.
¶ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David.
1.Hold not thy tongue, ô God of my apraise.
2.For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth ful of deceit are opened upon me: they have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3.Thei compassed me about also with words of hatred, & fought against me without a cause.
4.For my friendship thei were mine adversaries, bbut I gave my self to praier.
5.And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
6.cSet thou the wicked over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand.
7.When he shalbe judged, let him be condemned, and let his dpraier be turned into sin.
8.Let his daies be few, and let another take his echarge.
9.Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10.Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seek bread, coming out of their places destroyed.
11.Let fthe extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12.Let there be none to extend mercie unto him: neither let there be any to show mercie upon his fatherless children.
13.Let his posterity be destroyed, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
14.gLet the iniquity of his fathers be had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
15.But let them alway be before the Lord, that he maie cut off their memorial from the earth.
16.Because hhe remembred not to shewe mercie, but persecuted the afflicted & poor man, & the sorrowful hearted to slay him.
17.As he loved cursing, iso shal it come unto him, and as he loved not blessing, so shal it be far from him.
18.As he clothed him self with cursing like a raiment, so shal it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19.Let it be unto him as a garment to cover him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alwaie girded.
20.Let this be the reward of mine adversary kfrom the Lord, and of them, that speak evil against my soul.
21.But thou, ô Lord my God, deal with me according unto thy lName: deliver me, (for thy mercie is good)
22.Because I am poor and nedie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
23.I depart like a shadow that declineth, and am shaken off as the mgrasshopper.
24.My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh nhathe lost all fatnes.
25.I became also a rebuke unto them: they that looked upon me, shaked their heads.
26.Help me, ô Lord my God: osave me according to thy mercie.
27.And they shal knowe, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28.Though they pcurse, yet thou wilt bless: they shal arise and be confounded, but thy servant shal rejoyce.
29.Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their confusion, as with a cloke.
30.I wil give thanks unto the Lord greatly with my qmouth, and praise him among the multitude.
31.For he wil stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from them that would rcondemne his soul.

Notes

1-a.
Though all the world condemn me, yet you will approve my innocence, and that is a sufficient praise to me.
4-b.
To declare that I had none other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.
6-c.
Whether it were Doeg or Saul, or some familiar friend that had betrayed him, he prays not of private affection, but moved by God’s Spirit, that God would take vengeance upon him.
7-d.
As to the elect all things turn to their profit: so to the reprobate even those things, that are good, turn to their damnation.
8-e.
This was chiefly accomplished in Judas, Act 1.20.
11-f.
He declares that the curse of God lays upon the extortioners: who thinking to enrich their children by their unlawful gotten goods, are by God’s just judgement deprived of all.
14-g.
Thus punishes the Lord to the third, and forth generation the wickedness of the parents in their wicked children.
16-h.
He shows that God accustomed to plague them after a strange sort, that show themselves cruel toward other.
17-i.
Thus gives the Lord to every man the thing, wherein he delights, that the reprobate cannot accuse God of wrong, when they are given up to their lusts and reprobate minds.
20-k.
For being destitute of man’s help, he fully trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him.
21-l.
As you are named merciful, gracious and long suffering, so show yourself in effect.
23-m.
Meaning, that he has no stay nor assurance in this world.
24-n.
For hunger, that came of sorrow, he was lean, and his natural moisture failed him.
26-o.
The more grievously that Saul assailed him, the more earnest and instant was he in prayer.
28-p.
They shall gain nothing by cursing me.
30-q.
Not only in confessing it secretly in myself, but also in declaring it before all the Congregation.
31-r.
Hereby he shows that he had not to do with them, that were of little power, but with the judges and princes of the world.