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