Psalm 109

The most severe curse psalm: may his days be few, his children beggars, his memory cut off. I won't soften it. It comes from someone whose love was repaid with accusation, and verse 16 names the enemy's crime: he hounded "the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death." Peter applies verse 8 to Judas (Acts 1:20). The psalm hands the vengeance to God, and at the end God stands "at the right hand of the needy one." Jesus' teaching to bless those who curse you (Luke 6:28) goes further than this psalm, and the honest reader feels the distance.

"For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul." (Psalm 109:31)

Versions/Hebrew: 109:4 is literally "In return for my love they accuse me [yistenuni, from satan 7853], and I — prayer." YLT keeps the bare phrase: "and I — prayer!" He doesn't just pray. He is prayer.