{"id":1500,"date":"2024-10-20T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/know\/?p=844"},"modified":"2024-10-20T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:19:20","slug":"psalm-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2024\/10\/20\/psalm-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 109"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 109:1  To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent;<br \/>\nPsa 109:2  for the mouth of the wicked, and the deceitful mouth, are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.<br \/>\nPsa 109:3  And they hemmed me in with words of hating; and they fought against me without a cause.<br \/>\nPsa 109:4  In return for my love, they are my enemies; but I am in prayer.<br \/>\nPsa 109:5  And they put on me evil for good, and hating for my love.<br \/>\nPsa 109:6  Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand;<br \/>\nPsa 109:7  when he is judged, let him go out wicked; and let his prayer become sin;<br \/>\nPsa 109:8  let his days be few; and let another take his office;<br \/>\nPsa 109:9  his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;<br \/>\nPsa 109:10  and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;<br \/>\nPsa 109:11  let the moneylender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers plunder his labor;<br \/>\nPsa 109:12  let there be none giving mercy to him; nor any to have pity on his orphans;<br \/>\nPsa 109:13  let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation;<br \/>\nPsa 109:14  let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;<br \/>\nPsa 109:15  let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;<br \/>\nPsa 109:16  because he did not remember to do mercy; and he persecuted the poor and needy man, even to kill the broken of heart.<br \/>\nPsa 109:17  Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; he also had no pleasure in blessing, and it was far from him.<br \/>\nPsa 109:18  And he put on cursing as his robe, and it came like water in his inward parts, and like oil into his bones.<br \/>\nPsa 109:19  Let it be to him as a garment he wraps in, and for a girdle that he always girds on.<br \/>\nPsa 109:20  This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of those who speak evil against my soul.<br \/>\nPsa 109:21  But You, O Jehovah the Lord, work with me for Your name&#8217;s sake; deliver me because Your mercy is good.<br \/>\nPsa 109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.<br \/>\nPsa 109:23  As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.<br \/>\nPsa 109:24  My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.<br \/>\nPsa 109:25  And I have become a reproach to them; they looked at me; they shook their heads.<br \/>\nPsa 109:26  O Jehovah my God, help me; save me according to Your mercy;<br \/>\nPsa 109:27  and they will know that this is Your hand; that You, O Jehovah, have done it.<br \/>\nPsa 109:28  They will curse, but You will bless; they rise up and are ashamed; but Your servant will be glad.<br \/>\nPsa 109:29  Let those who accuse me be clothed with shame; and cover themselves in their shame as with a robe.<br \/>\nPsa 109:30  I will greatly thank Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him in the midst of the multitude.<br \/>\nPsa 109:31  For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy; to save from those judging his soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 109:1  To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent;<br \/>\nPsa 109:2  for the mouth of the wicked, and the deceitful mouth, are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.<br \/>\nPsa 109:3  And they hemmed me in with words of hating; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23628,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/23628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}