“‘May his place be deserted;
    let there be no one to dwell in it,’^[a](A)

“‘May another take his place of leadership.’^[b](B)

²⁵ May their place be deserted;^(A)
    let there be no one to dwell in their tents.^(B)

⁸ May his days be few;^(A)
    may another take his place^(B) of leadership.
⁹ May his children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow.^(C)
10 May his children be wandering beggars;^(D)
    may they be driven^[a] from their ruined homes.
¹¹ May a creditor^(E) seize all he has;
    may strangers plunder^(F) the fruits of his labor.^(G)
12 May no one extend kindness to him
    or take pity^(H) on his fatherless children.
¹³ May his descendants be cut off,^(I)
    their names blotted out^(J) from the next generation.
¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers^(K) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
¹⁵ May their sins always remain before^(L) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name^(M) from the earth.

“‘You are my son;
    today I have become your father.’^[a](B)

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand