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| [1]Hold not thy tongue, O God of my praise. |
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| [2]For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceit are opened upon me: they have spoken to me with a lying tongue. |
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| [3]They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. |
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| [4]For my friendship they were mine adversaries, but I gave myself to prayer. |
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| [5]And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship. |
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| [6]Set thou the wicked over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand. |
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| [7]When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer be turned into sin. |
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| [8]Let his days be few, and let another take his charge. |
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| [9]Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. |
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| [10]Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seek bread, coming out of their places destroyed. |
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| [11]Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers spoil his labor. |
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| [12]Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to show mercy upon his fatherless children. |
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| [13]Let his posterity be destroyed, and in the generation following let their name be put out. |
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| [14]Let the iniquity of his fathers be had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away. |
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| [15]But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from the earth. |
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| [16]Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the afflicted and poor man, and the sorrowful hearted to slay him. |
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| [17]As he loved cursing, so shall it come unto him, and as he loved not blessing, so shall it be far from him. |
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| [18]As he clothed himself with cursing like a raiment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. |
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| [19]Let it be unto him as a garment to cover him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shall be alway girded. |
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| [20]Let this be the reward of mine adversary from the Lord, and of them, that speak evil against my soul. |
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| [21]But thou, O Lord my God, deal with me according unto thy name: deliver me, (for thy mercy is good) |
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| [22]Because I am poor and needy, and mine heart is wounded within me. |
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| [23]I depart like the shadow that declineth, and am shaken off as the grasshopper. |
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| [24]My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatness. |
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| [25]I became also a rebuke unto them: they that looked upon me, shaked their heads. |
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| [26]Help me, O Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy. |
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| [27]And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it. |
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| [28]Though they curse, yet thou wilt bless: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy servant shall rejoice. |
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| [29]Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their confusion, as with a cloak. |
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| [30]I will give thanks unto the Lord greatly with my mouth, and praise him among the multitude. |
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| [31]For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from them that would condemn his soul. |
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