Chapter 109

  {To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.} O God of my praise, be not silent:  

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  For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,  

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  And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.  

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  For my love they are mine 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 a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand;  

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  When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;  

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  Let his days be few, let another take his office;  

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  Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;  

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  Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;  

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  Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;  

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  Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;  

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  Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:  

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  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;  

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  Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:  

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  Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.  

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  And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.  

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  And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; 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 a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.  

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  Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.  

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  But do thou for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me:  

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  For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.  

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  I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;  

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  My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;  

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  And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads.  

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  Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness:  

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  That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it.  

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  Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.  

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  Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.  

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  I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.  

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  For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.  

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