Deus, laudem meum. Ps.109.N.

David being falsely accused by Saul’s flatterers, prayeth God to help him to destroy his enemies, who represent Judas the traitor unto Jesus Christ, and all like enemies of the children of God.

Sing this as the 98 Psalm.

The first part (Ps 109) The second part (Ps 109) The third part (Ps 109)
In speechless silence do not hold,
O God thy tongue always:
O God even thou I say that art
the God of all my praise.
 
2 The wicked mouth and guileful lips,
on me disclosed be:
And they with false and lying tongue,
have spoken unto me.
 
3 They did beset me round about,
with words of hateful spite:
Without all cause of my dessert,
against me they did fight.
 
4 For my good will they were my foes,
but then ‘gan I to pray:
My good with ill, my friendliness
with hate they did repay.
 
5 Set thou the wicked over him,
to have the upper hand:
At his right hand eke suffer thou,
his hateful foe to stand.
 
6 When he is judged, let him then
condemned be therein:
 
7 And let the prayer that he makes,
be turned into sin.
 
8 Few be his days, his charge also,
let thou another take:
 
9 His children let be fatherless,
his wife a widow make.
 
10 Let his offsprings be vagabonds,
to beg and seek their bread:
Wandering out of the wonted place,
where erst they have been fed.
 
11 Let covetous extortioners
catch all his goods and store:
And let the strangers spoil the fruit
of his toil before.
 
12 Let there be none to pity him,
let there be none at all:
That on his children fatherless,
will let their mercy fall.
13 And so let his posterity,
forever be destroyed:
Their names out-blotted in the age,
that after shall succeed.
 
14 Let not his father’s wickedness,
from God remembrance fall:
And let thou not his mother’s sin,
be done away at all.
 
15 But in the presence of the Lord,
let them remain for aye:
That from the earth their memory,
he may cut clean away.
 
16 Sith mercy he forgate to show,
but did pursue with spite:
The troubled man, and sought to slay
the woeful hearted wight.
 
17 As he did cursing love, it shall
betide unto him so:
And as he did not blessing love,
it shall be far him fro.
 
18 As he with cursing clad himself,
so it like water shall
Into his bowels, and like oil,
into his bones be fall.
 
19 As garment let it be to him,
to cover him for aye:
And as a girdle wherewith he
shall girded be alway.
 
20 Lo let the same be from the Lord,
the guerdon of my foe:
Yea and of those that evil speak
against my soul also.
 
21 But thou O Lord that art my God,
deal thou I say with me:
After thy name deliver me,
for good thy mercies be.
 
22 Because in depth of great distress,
I needy am and poor:
And eke within my pained breast,
my heart is wounded sore.
23 Even so do I depart away,
as doth declining shade:
And as the Grasshopper, so I
am shaken off and fade.
 
24 With fasting long from needful food,
enfeebled are my knees:
And all her fatness hath my flesh
enforced been to leave.
 
25 And I also a vile reproach
to them was made to be:
And they that did upon me look
did shake their heads at me.
 
26 But thou O Lord that art my God,
mine aide and succor be:
According to thy mercy Lord,
save and deliver me.
 
27 And they shall know thereby, that this
Lord is thy mighty hand:
And that thou, thou hast done it Lord,
so shall they understand.
 
28 Although they curse with spite, yet thou
shalt bless with loving voice?
They shall arise and come to shame,
thy servant shall rejoice.
 
29 Let them be clothed all with shame,
that enemies are to me:
And with confusion as a cloak,
eke covered let them be.
 
30 But greatly I will with my mouth
give thanks unto the Lord:
And I among the multitude
his praise will record.
 
31 For he with help at his right hand,
will stand the poor man by,
To save him from the man that would
condemn his soul to die.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS

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