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Psalm 109:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Bible Questions Answered, article 146

    Bearing Witness, p. 19

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 857-858

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 131

    “All Scripture,” p. 204

    The Watchtower,

    8/1/1987, pp. 11-12

  • Publications Index

    ijwbq article 146; bt 19; it-1 857-858; it-2 131; si 204; w87 8/1 11-12;

    w71 319; w71 690; ad 598; w58 43; w51 763; w44 170, 312; w30 277

Psalm 109:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 279

  • Publications Index

    it-1 279;

    ad 208

Psalm 109:23

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 905

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/2006, p. 13

  • Publications Index

    it-2 905; w06 9/1 13;

    ad 1477

Psalm 109:30

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w65 339; w47 249

Psalm 109:31

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1030

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/2006, p. 14

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1030; w06 9/1 14;

    ad 710

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The Bible in Living English
Psalm 109:1-31

Psalms

(Of the Director; of David’s; a psalm.)

109 God of my praise, do not be deaf,

2 For they have opened against me mouths of wrong and of treachery

and spoken with me with tongues of falsehood

3 And encircled me with words of hatred

and made war on me for nothing;

4 In return for my love they are adversaries to me;

but on my part prayer.

5 And they have turned upon me evil in return for good

and hatred in return for my love.

6 Give a wrong-doer authority over him

and let an adversary stand at his right hand!

7 When he goes into court let him come out in the wrong,

and let his prayer become sin!

8 Be his days few!

let another take his station!

9 Be his sons orphans

and his wife a widow,

10 And may his sons live as vagabonds and beg their bread

and go out soliciting from the wasted sites they lodge in!

11 May a creditor bag everything he has,

and strangers plunder the fruit of his toil!

12 May he have nobody that keeps up friendship,

and his orphans nobody that shows them goodwill!

13 May his posterity come to extinction,

their name be obliterated in another generation!

14 May Jehovah be reminded of his fathers’ guilt,

his mother’s sin not be obliterated,

15 May they be always present to Jehovah

and may he cut off their memory forever,

16 Since he did not remember to show friendship

but hunted down a man wretched and needy

and wounded to the heart, to give him his deathblow,

17 And loved a curse—so may it come upon him!

and had no liking for a blessing—so may it be far from him!

18 And wore curses like his coat—

so may they come into his inward parts like water

and into his bones like oil,

19 Be to him like the clothing he is wrapped in

and become the girdle he is always belted with!

20 These are the earnings due from Jehovah to those who are hostile to me

and to those who are talking up evil against my life.

21 But do you, Jehovah, my Lord,

take action on my side for the honor of your name,

deliver me because your friendship is so good,

22 Because I am wretched and needy

and my heart is stabbed within me.

23 I am gone like a lengthening shadow,

tumbled out like grasshoppers.

24 My knees are giving way from fasting

and my flesh has grown lean without oil,

25 And I have become a butt for their taunts,

they see me and shake their heads.

26 Help me, Jehovah, my God,

save me as befits your friendship,

27 That they may know that this is your hand,

it is you, Jehovah, that did it.

28 Let them curse while you bless;

let those who stand up against me be disappointed

and your servant make merry.

29 Let those who are hostile to me be clothed in humiliation

and wrapped in their shame as in a robe.

30 I will speak out great thanks to Jehovah

and praise him in the midst of many

31 Because he stands at a needy man’s right hand

to save him from those who would judge him for life or death.

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