Psalm 109:20 {108:20}
Good News Translation
LORD, punish my enemies in that way--those who say such evil things against me!

New Revised Standard Version
May that be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life.

Contemporary English Version
Those are the cruel things my enemies wish for me. Let it all happen to them!

New American Bible
May this be the reward for my accusers from the LORD, for those speaking evil against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

let this

Psalm 2:5,6,12 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage. . . .

Psalm 21:8-12 Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee. . . .

Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. . . .

Psalm 110:1,5,6 A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. . . .

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.

1 Kings 2:44 And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.

Luke 19:27 But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me.

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

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Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

Matthew 12:24 But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

Matthew 26:66,67 What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death. . . .

Mark 9:39 But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.

1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually. 20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.21But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,…
Cross References
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works:

Psalm 41:5
My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Psalm 54:5
Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy truth.

Psalm 71:10
For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,

Psalm 94:23
And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Psalm 109:19
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