[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] 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[Ma nnwontofoɔ panin no, Dawid Dwom.] Nyɛ komm, Ao m'ayɛyie Onyankopɔn;Under pastoral review
2Efisɛ amumuyɛfoɔ ano ne nnaadaafoɔ ano abue atia me: wɔde atorɔ tɛkrɛma akasa atia me.Under pastoral review
3Wɔde ɔtan nsɛm atwa me ho ahyia; na wɔko tia me kwa.Under pastoral review
4Me dɔ enti wɔyɛ m'atamfoɔ: nanso me deɛ, mebɔ mpaeɛ.Under pastoral review
5Na wɔde bɔne atua me papa so ka, ne ɔtan atua me dɔ so ka.Under pastoral review
6Fa ɔdebɔneyɛni si ne so: na ma Satan nnyina ne nsa nifa so.Under pastoral review
7Sɛ wɔbu no atɛn a, ma wɔmmu no fɔ: na ma ne mpaeɛbɔ nyɛ bɔne.Under pastoral review
8Ma ne nna nyɛ kakraa bi; na ma obi foforɔ nfa ne sɔhwɛ.Under pastoral review
9Ma ne mma nyɛ nyisaa, na ne yere nyɛ opremfoɔ baa.Under pastoral review
10Ma ne mma nkyinkyin daa, na wɔnsrɛsrɛ: ma wɔnhwehwɛ wɔn aduane mfiri wɔn amamfo mu.Under pastoral review
11Ma ɔdefodie mfa deɛ ɔwɔ nyinaa; na ma ahɔhoɔ mfom n'ɔbrɛ adeɛ.Under pastoral review
12Mma obiara nnya mmɔborɔhunu mma no: na mma obiara nnhunu ne nyisaa mmɔbɔ.Under pastoral review
13Ma n'asefoɔ ntwa; na awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ a ɛdi soɔ mu no, ma wɔnpepa wɔn din.Under pastoral review
14Ma wɔnkae n'agyanom amumuyɛ wɔ AWURADE anim; na mma wɔmmpepa ne maame bɔne.Under pastoral review
15Ma wɔntena AWURADE anim daa, sɛdeɛ ɔbɛtwa wɔn nkaeɛ afiri asase so.Under pastoral review
16Efisɛ wankae sɛ ɔbɛda mmɔborɔhunu adi, na mmom ɔtaa ohiani ne mmɔborɔni, sɛdeɛ ɔbɛkum deɛ n'akoma abubu.Under pastoral review
17Sɛdeɛ ɔdɔɔ nnome no, saa ara na ɛmmra ne so: sɛdeɛ n'ani annye nhyira ho no, saa ara na ɛnkɔ akyiri mfiri ne ho.Under pastoral review
18Sɛdeɛ ɔde nnome hyɛɛ ne ho sɛ n'atadeɛ no, saa ara na ɛmmra ne yam sɛ nsuo, ne sɛ ngo nkɔ ne nnompe mu.Under pastoral review
19Ma ɛnyɛ no sɛ atadeɛ a ɛkata ne ho, ne sɛ abɔsoɔ a ɔde bɔ ne ho daa.Under pastoral review
20Yei nyɛ m'atamfoɔ akatua a ɛfiri AWURADE hɔ, ne wɔn a wɔka bɔne tia me kra.Under pastoral review
21Nanso wo, Ao AWURADE Awurade, yɛ ma me wo din enti: efisɛ wo mmɔborɔhunu yɛ, gye me.Under pastoral review
22Efisɛ meyɛ ohiani ne mmɔborɔni, na m'akoma apirapira wɔ me mu.Under pastoral review
23Mekɔ sɛ sunsuma a ɛtwam: wɔwoso me sɛ ntutummɛ.Under pastoral review
24Me nkotodwe ayɛ mmerɛ mmuadadie enti; na me honam ayɛ kɛtɛ.Under pastoral review
25Meyɛɛ ahohorabɔ nso maa wɔn: wɔhwɛɛ me, na wɔwosoo wɔn ti.Under pastoral review
26Boa me, Ao AWURADE me Onyankopɔn: Ao gye me sɛdeɛ wo mmɔborɔhunu teɛ:Under pastoral review
27Sɛdeɛ wɔbɛhunu sɛ wo nsa nie; sɛ wo, AWURADE, na woayɛ.Under pastoral review
28Ma wɔnnome, na wo deɛ hyira: sɛ wɔsɔre a, ma wɔn anim ngu ase; na ma w'akoa ani nnye.Under pastoral review
29Ma m'atamfoɔ nhyɛ aniwuo atadeɛ, na ma wɔmfa wɔn ara wɔn animguaseɛ nkata wɔn ho sɛ ntoma.Under pastoral review
30Mede m'ano bɛkamfo AWURADE pa ara; aane, mɛkamfo no wɔ dɔm mu.Under pastoral review
31Efisɛ ɔbɛgyina ohiani nsa nifa so, sɛ ɔbɛgye no afiri wɔn a wɔbu ne kra fɔ no nsam.Under pastoral review