| English Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1Be not silent, O God of my praise! | 1For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent, |
| 2For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. | 2for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues. |
| 3They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. | 3With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause. |
| 4In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. | 4In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer. |
| 5So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. | 5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship. |
| 6Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. | 6Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy; let an accuser stand at his right hand. |
| 7When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! | 7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him. |
| 8May his days be few; may another take his office! | 8May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. |
| 9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow! | 9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. |
| 10May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit! | 10May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. |
| 11May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! | 11May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. |
| 12Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! | 12May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. |
| 13May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! | 13May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. |
| 14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! | 14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out. |
| 15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! | 15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth. |
| 16For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. | 16For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted. |
| 17He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him! | 17He loved to pronounce a curse-- may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing-- may it be far from him. |
| 18He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! | 18He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil. |
| 19May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day! | 19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him. |
| 20May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! | 20May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me. |
| 21But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! | 21But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me. |
| 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. | 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. |
| 23I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. | 23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust. |
| 24My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. | 24My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt. |
| 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads. | 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads. |
| 26Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! | 26Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love. |
| 27Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it! | 27Let them know that it is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it. |
| 28Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! | 28While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice. |
| 29May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak! | 29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak. |
| 30With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. | 30With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him. |
| 31For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death. | 31For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them. |
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