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Psalms 109 : 1 - 31
Chapter 109
1 | Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!
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2 | For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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3 | They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
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4 | In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.
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5 | Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
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6 | Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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7 | When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
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8 | Let his days be few, And let another take his office.
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9 | Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
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10 | Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
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11 | Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.
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12 | Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
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13 | Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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15 | Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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16 | Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.
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17 | As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
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18 | As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
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19 | Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
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20 | Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.
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21 | But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
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22 | For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
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23 | I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
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24 | My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
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25 | I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads.
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26 | Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
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27 | That they may know that this is Your hand--That You, LORD, have done it!
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28 | Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.
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29 | Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
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30 | I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.
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31 | For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.
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