| 109:1
| Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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| 109:2
| 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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| 109:3
| They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
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| 109:4
| For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
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| 109:5
| And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
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| 109:6
| Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
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| 109:7
| When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
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| 109:8
| Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
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| 109:9
| Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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| 109:10
| Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their
bread also out of their desolate places.
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| 109:11
| Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil
his labour.
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| 109:12
| Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
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| 109:13
| Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their
name be blotted out.
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| 109:14
| 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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| 109:15
| Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
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| 109:16
| 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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| 109:17
| 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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| 109:18
| 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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| 109:19
| Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
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| 109:20
| Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them
that speak evil against my soul.
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| 109:21
| 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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| 109:22
| For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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| 109:23
| I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
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| 109:24
| My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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| 109:25
| I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked
their heads.
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| 109:26
| Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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| 109:27
| That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
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| 109:28
| Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
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| 109:29
| Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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| 109:30
| I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him
among the multitude.
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| 109:31
| For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those
that condemn his soul.
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