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