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Chapter 109
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Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; |
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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
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred;
and fought against me without a cause. |
4
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself
unto prayer. |
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred
for my love. |
6
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand
at his right hand. |
7
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and
let his prayer become sin. |
8
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office. |
9
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. |
10
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate
places. |
11
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let
the strangers spoil his labour. |
12
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither
let there be any to favour his fatherless children. |
13
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation
following let their name be blotted out. |
14
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted
out. |
15
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may
cut off the memory of them from the earth. |
16
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken
in heart. |
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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he
delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. |
18
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his
garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and
like oil into his bones. |
19
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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. |
20
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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the
LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. |
21
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's
sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. |
22
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within
me. |
23
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed
up and down as the locust. |
24
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth
of fatness. |
25
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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked
upon me they shaked their heads. |
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy
mercy: |
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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou,
LORD, hast done it. |
28
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let
them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. |
29
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let
them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with
a mantle. |
30
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea,
I will praise him among the multitude. |
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to
save him from those that condemn his soul. |
