---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 109
verse_count: 31
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 109, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 109

*David complaineth of God's enemies Prayeth against them. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of*

**1** David. HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;
**2** For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
**3** They compassed me about; they spake against me also, with works of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
**4** And, notwithstanding my love, they are my adversaries; yet I will continue in prayer for them.
**5** And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
**6** Set thou a wicked man over them; and let Satan stand at his right hand.
**7** When they shall be judged, let them be condemned; and let their prayer become sin.
**8** Let their days be few; let another take their office.
**9** Let their children be fatherless; and their wives widows.
**10** Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek also out of their desolate places.
**11** Let the extortioner catch all that they have; and let the stranger spoil their labour.
**12** Let there be none to extend mercy unto them; neither let there be any to favour their fatherless children.
**13** Let their posterity be cut off in the generation following; let their name be blotted out.
**14** Let the iniquity of their fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of their mothers be blotted out.
**15** Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
**16** Because they remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that they might even slay the broken in heart.
**17** As they loved cursing, so let it come unto them; as they delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from them.
**18** As they clothed themselves with cursing like as with their garments, so let it come into their bowels like water, and like oil into their bones.
**19** Let it be unto them as a garment covereth them, and for a girdle wherewith they are girded continually.
**20** This shall be the reward of mine adversaries, from the Lord; and of them who speak evil against my soul.
**21** But do thou deliver me, O Lord my God, for thy name's sake; because thy mercy is good, therefore deliver thou me.
**22** For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
**23** I am gone like the shadow when it declineth; I am tossed up and down as the locust.
**24** My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
**25** I became also a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
**26** Help me, O Lord my God; oh save me according to thy mercy;
**27** That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.
**28** Let them curse, but bless thou; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
**29** Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
**30** I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
**31** For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.