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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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