| 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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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
against me without a cause. |
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| 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. |
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| 6: Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
right hand. |
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| 7: When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: 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 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. |
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| 12: Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
be any to favour 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 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 24: My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
fatness. |
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| 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:
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| 27: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD,
hast done it. |
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| 28: Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. |
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| 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. |
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| 31: For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him
from those that condemn his soul. |
