| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
