1. Do not hold 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 of me with a lying tongue.
3. They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.
4. They have responded to my love by becoming 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 the 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 out of their desolate places.
11. Let the extortioner catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12. Let there be no one to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.