9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread: let them seek
it also out of desolate places.
10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath: and let the
stranger spoil his labour.
11 Let there be no man to pity him: nor to have compassion upon
his fatherless children.
12 Let his posterity be destroyed: and in the next generation let
his name be clean put out.
13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the
sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
14 Let them alway be before the Lord: that he may root out the
memorial of them from off the earth.
15 And that, because his mind was not to do good: but persecuted
the poor helpless man, that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart.
16 His delight was in cursing, and it shall happen unto him: he
loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him,
17 He clothed himself with cursing, like as with a raiment: and it
shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him: and as
the girdle that he is alway girded withal.
19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those
that speak evil against my soul.
20 But deal thou with me, O Lord God, according unto thy Name:
for sweet is thy mercy.
21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor: and my heart is
wounded within me.
22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth: and am driven away
as the grasshopper.
23 My knees are weak through fasting: my flesh is dried up for
want of fatness.
24 I became also a reproach unto them: they that looked upon me
shaked their heads.