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Chapter 109 |
| 1 | Hold not thy
peace, O God of my praise; |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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.
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| 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. |
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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 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. |
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| Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy
mercy: |
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| 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. |
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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. |
