rsv Psalms:109:1-31 SEEK
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To the choirmaster .
A Psalm of David .
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Be not silent ,
O God of my praise !
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For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me ,
speaking against me with lying tongues .
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They beset me with words of hate ,
and attack me without cause .
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In return for my love they accuse me ,
even as I make prayer for them .
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So they reward me evil for good ,
and hatred for my love .
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Appoint a wicked man against him ;
let an accuser bring him to trial .
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When he is tried ,
let him come forth guilty ;
let his prayer be counted as sin !
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May his days be few ;
may another seize his goods !
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May his children be fatherless ,
and his wife a widow !
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May his children wander about and beg ;
may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit !
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May the creditor seize all that he has ;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil !
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Let there be none to extend kindness to him ,
nor any to pity his fatherless children !
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May his posterity be cut off ;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation !
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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD ,
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out !
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Let them be before the LORD continually ;
and may his memory be cut off from the earth !
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For he did not remember to show kindness ,
but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death .
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He loved to curse ;
let curses come on him !
He did not like blessing ;
may it be far from him !
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He clothed himself with cursing as his coat ,
may it soak into his body like water ,
like oil into his bones !
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May it be like a garment which he wraps round him ,
like a belt with which he daily girds himself !
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May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD ,
of those who speak evil against my life !
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But thou ,
O GOD my Lord ,
deal on my behalf for thy name '
s sake ;
because thy steadfast love is good ,
deliver me !
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For I am poor and needy ,
and my heart is stricken within me .
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I am gone ,
like a shadow at evening ;
I am shaken off like a locust .
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My knees are weak through fasting ;
my body has become gaunt .
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I am an object of scorn to my accusers ;
when they see me ,
they wag their heads .
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Help me ,
O LORD my God !
Save me according to thy steadfast love !
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Let them know that this is thy hand ;
thou ,
O LORD ,
hast done it !
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Let them curse ,
but do thou bless !
Let my assailants be put to shame ;
may thy servant be glad !
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May my accusers be clothed with dishonor ;
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle !
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With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD ;
I will praise him in the midst of the throng . [ (
Psalms strkjv @
109:32 )
For he stands at the right hand of the needy ,
to save him from those who condemn him to death . ]