Do Not Keep Silent, YAHUAH! (When Life is Unjust)

DO  NOT  KEEP  SILENT, YAHUAH!

(based on Psalm  109)

Do not keep silent, O Yah of my praise,

Do not keep silent.

For the mouths of the wicked and deceitful

Have opened against me.

They have spoken against me with lying tongue

With words of hatred;

They have surrounded and fought against

Me without a cause.

Do not keep silent, Yahuah!

In return for my love they are my accusers,

But I give myself to prayer.

Thus they have repaid me evil for good, 

And hatred for my love.

Do not keep silent, Yahuah!

But You, Yahuah, deal with me

For Your Name’s sake.

Because Your mercy is good and true  

Deliver me!

My heart is wounded within me

I need Your strength.

According to Your mercy, Yahuah, 

Save me and help me!

Do not keep silent, Yahuah!

So that they may know, that this is Your hand,

Hand that saves and comforts me.

I will greatly praise Yahuah with song

Among the multitude.

Do not keep silent, Yahuah!

When the wicked rise — let them be ashamed.

When they curse — You bless!

Let my accusers be clothed with shame

But let me — rejoice!

And let the wicked cover themselves

With their own disgrace.

As they see at the right hand of the poor — 

Yahuah, our King!

Do not keep silent, Yahuah!

I will greatly praise Yahuah with song

Among those He saves.

Yahuah shall stay at my side always

I will greatly praise Him!

Do not keep silent, Yahuah, 

Yah of my praise!  

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Psalm 109  (KJV)

1 Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise, do not keep silent!

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 also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

²¹ But do Thou for me, O God YAHUAH, for Thy Name's sake: because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.

²⁶ Help me, O YAHUAH my ELOHIYM: O 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 YAHUAH 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. O God of my praise, do not keep silent!

(edits mine)