{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "psalms", "chapter": 109 }, "data": { "n": 109, "bookSlug": "psalms", "bookCode": "PSA", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "PSA-109:1", "verseRef": "Ps.109.1", "text": "Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "PSA-109:2", "verseRef": "Ps.109.2", "text": "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "PSA-109:3", "verseRef": "Ps.109.3", "text": "They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "PSA-109:4", "verseRef": "Ps.109.4", "text": "For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself unto] prayer." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "PSA-109:5", "verseRef": "Ps.109.5", "text": "And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "PSA-109:6", "verseRef": "Ps.109.6", "text": "Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "PSA-109:7", "verseRef": "Ps.109.7", "text": "When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "PSA-109:8", "verseRef": "Ps.109.8", "text": "Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "PSA-109:9", "verseRef": "Ps.109.9", "text": "Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "PSA-109:10", "verseRef": "Ps.109.10", "text": "Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "PSA-109:11", "verseRef": "Ps.109.11", "text": "Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "PSA-109:12", "verseRef": "Ps.109.12", "text": "Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "PSA-109:13", "verseRef": "Ps.109.13", "text": "Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "PSA-109:14", "verseRef": "Ps.109.14", "text": "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "PSA-109:15", "verseRef": "Ps.109.15", "text": "Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "PSA-109:16", "verseRef": "Ps.109.16", "text": "Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them]." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "PSA-109:17", "verseRef": "Ps.109.17", "text": "Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "PSA-109:18", "verseRef": "Ps.109.18", "text": "He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "PSA-109:19", "verseRef": "Ps.109.19", "text": "Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "PSA-109:20", "verseRef": "Ps.109.20", "text": "This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "PSA-109:21", "verseRef": "Ps.109.21", "text": "But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name`s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "PSA-109:22", "verseRef": "Ps.109.22", "text": "For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "PSA-109:23", "verseRef": "Ps.109.23", "text": "I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "PSA-109:24", "verseRef": "Ps.109.24", "text": "My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "PSA-109:25", "verseRef": "Ps.109.25", "text": "I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "PSA-109:26", "verseRef": "Ps.109.26", "text": "Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "PSA-109:27", "verseRef": "Ps.109.27", "text": "That they may know that this is thy hand; [That] thou, Jehovah, hast done it." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "PSA-109:28", "verseRef": "Ps.109.28", "text": "Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "PSA-109:29", "verseRef": "Ps.109.29", "text": "Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "PSA-109:30", "verseRef": "Ps.109.30", "text": "I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "PSA-109:31", "verseRef": "Ps.109.31", "text": "For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. Psalm 110 A Psalm of David." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/109", "book": "/v1/library/books/psalms/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }