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A Prayer for Help against Enemies

For the music director. A psalm of David.[a]

109 O God of my praise, do not keep silent,
for wicked and deceitful mouths[b]
have opened against me.
They speak to me with a lying tongue.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 109:2 Literally “a wicked mouth and a deceitful mouth”

Psalm 109

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

My God, whom I praise,(A)
    do not remain silent,(B)
for people who are wicked and deceitful(C)
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.(D)

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