Psalms

1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18As 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.

19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

1xin Chúa đừng lặng thinh.

2nói với con toàn lời dối trá,

3buông lời hằn học bủa vây con, tấn công con vô cớ.

4phần con, con chỉ biết cầu nguyện.

5lấy hận thù đáp lại lòng con thương mến.

6bên phải nó, đặt một người cáo tội đứng kèm.

7và lời xin ân xá thành lời buộc tội.

8chức vụ nó vào tay kẻ khác,

9còn vợ nó ra người goá bụa !

10bị đuổi ra khỏi nhà, nhà đã tan hoang,

11và người lạ đoạt hết của mồ hôi nước mắt.

12chẳng người nào thương lũ con nó mồ côi,

13sau một đời, tên tuổi bị xoá nhoà !

14lỗi của mẹ nó không hề được xoá bỏ đi !

15xin Chúa xoá nhoà tên tuổi chúng trên đời !

16và giết hại cả người đã héo hắt tâm can.

17thì cho lời chúc lành bỏ nó mà đi !

18như nước thấm ruột gan, như dầu vào xương tuỷ.

19như đai lưng thắt mãi không rời !

20ước gì CHÚA trả công như vậy !

21vì lòng Ngài yêu thương nhân hậu, xin giải thoát con,

22nghe trong mình con tim rướm máu.

23bị cuốn lôi đi như gió cuốn cào cào.

24thân xác con gầy còm yếu nhược.

25trông thấy con là chúng lắc đầu.

26xin lấy lòng nhân hậu cứu độ con,

27chính tay Ngài đã làm như vậy !

28Nhưng tôi tớ Ngài đây sẽ được vui mừng.

29bị xấu hổ trùm lên như chiếc áo choàng.

30tán dương Người giữa lòng đại hội,

31để cứu độ khỏi tay người kết án.