Psalms:109

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* O God of my praise , do not keep silence . * For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me : they have spoken with me with the tongue of falsehood . * Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me , and they fight against me without a cause . * In recompense for my love are they my accusers , while I have nothing but prayer . * And they impose evil on me in recompense for good , and hatred in lieu of my love . * Appoint thou a wicked man over him : and let an accuser stand at his right hand . * When he is to be judged , let him go forth guilty , and let his prayer become sin . * Let his days be few , and let another take his office . * Let his children be fatherless , and his wife a widow . * Let his children be continually moving about , and beg , and let them seek out of their ruined places . * Let the creditor lay snares after all that he hath , and let strangers plunder his labor . * Let him have none that extendeth kindness , and let there be none that is gracious to his fatherless children . * Let his posterity be cut off : in another generation let their name be blotted out . * Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord , and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out . * Let them be before the Lord continually , that he may cut off from the earth their memory . * For the reason that he remembered not to show kindness ; but persecuted the poor and needy man , and the grieved in heart to put him to death . * As he loved cursing , so let it come over him : and as he delighted not in blessing , so let it be far from him . * And he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment , and it cometh like water within him , and like oil into his bones . * Let it be unto him as a garment in which he wrappeth himself , and for a girdle let him be continually girded with it . * Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord , and of those that speak evil against my soul . * But thou , O Eternal Lord , deal with me for the sake of thy name : because thy kindness is good , deliver thou me . * For poor and needy am I , and my heart is deeply wounded within me . * Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away : I am driven suddenly off like the locusts . * My knees stumble through fasting , and my flesh faileth of fatness . * And I am become a reproach unto them : when they see me , they shake their head . * Help me , O Lord my God : O save me according to thy kindness : * That they may know that this is thy hand : that thou , Lord , hast truly done it . * Let them then curse , but do thou bless : when they arise , let them be made ashamed ; but let thy servant rejoice . * Let my accusers be clothed with confusion , and let them wrap themselves , as with a mantle , in their own shame . * I will thank the Lord greatly with my mouth , and in the midst of many will I praise him . * For he ever standeth at the right hand of the needy , to save him from those that judge his soul .

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