betrayed our Lord; and
are to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should
befall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not properly as
curses.

108:7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be
turned to sin.

108:8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.

108:9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

108:10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let
them be cast out of their dwellings.

108:11. May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers
plunder his labours.

108:12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless
offspring.

108:13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be
blotted out.

108:14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of
the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

108:15. May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of
them perish from the earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew
mercy,

108:17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in
heart, to put him to death.

108:18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would
not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,
like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like
oil in his bones.

108:19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a
girdle with which he is girded continually.

108:20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who
speak evils against my soul.

108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy
mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,

108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am
shaken off as locusts.

108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed
for oil.

For oil... Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being
perfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness.

108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked
their heads.

108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.

108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord,
hast done it.

108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up
against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejo