| Chapter 109 |
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{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. |