1 To the chief musician, a psalm of David. God of my praise, be not silent.
2 For [the] mouth. of [the] wicked one and [the] mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 And [with] words of hatred they have surrounded me and have fought against me without cause.
4 For my love they are mine adversaries, and I [am for] prayer.
5 And they set upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint over him a wicked one, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him go out guilty, and his prayer be for sin.
8 Let his days be few, let another take his office.
9 Let his sons be orphans and his wife a widow.
10 And let his sons be vagabonds (wandering wanderers), and beg and seek [bread] out of their desolations.
11 Let an exactor ensnare all that he hath, and strangers plunder his labour.
12 Let there be none extending mercy to him, nor any one gracious to his orphans.
13 Let his posterity (latter end) be cut off; in a generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with (to) Jehovah, and his mother’s sin not be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, and let him cut off from the earth their memory,
16 Because he remembered not to show mercy, but (and) pursued the poor and needy man, and one broken in heart, to slay [him].
17 And he loved cursing; for (and) it came to him: and he delighted not in blessing: so it was far from him.
18 And he put on cursing as his garment, and it came like the water into his midst, and like the oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as raiment he weareth, and for a belt let him continually be girded.
20 This [is] the wages of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of their speaking evil against my soul.
21 But thou, Jehovah Lord, do with me for thy name’s sake; because thy mercy [is] good, deliver me.
22 For as to me I [am] poor and needy, and my heart wounded within me.
23 Like a shadow at its stretching out I am gone; I am tossed like the locust.
24 My knees totter from fasting, and my flesh faileth from fatness (oil).
25 And I have become a reproach to them; they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27 They shall know that this [is] thy hand; thou, O Jehovah, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, and bless thou: they have risen up and shall be ashamed, and thy servant be glad.
29 Mine adversaries shall be clothed with dishonor, they shall cover themselves with their shame as the mantle.
30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise in the midst of many.
31 For he standeth on the right hand of the needy to save [him] from those that judge his soul.
Notes on Psalm 109
“To the chief musician, of David, a psalm.” The Psalm is applied authoritatively to Judas; but it clearly includes the wicked like him, treacherous to the Messiah in the past, and especially in the future to those who have His spirit. In the following we have the glorious answer of Jehovah on behalf of the despised Messiah, who will have the children in all freshness, if their fathers rejected Him.