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The Book of Psalms, 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.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
against me without a cause.
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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.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right
hand.
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
prayer become sin.
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
strangers spoil his labour.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
be any to favour his fatherless children.
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following
let their name be blotted out.
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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.
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
the memory of them from the earth.
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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.
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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.
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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a
girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and
of them that speak evil against my soul.
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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.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and
down as the locust.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
fatness.
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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.
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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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.
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