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| [1]O God, pass not over my praise in silence; |
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| [2]for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty man have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue. |
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| [3]And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. |
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| [4]Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray. |
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| [5]And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
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| [6]Set thou a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand. |
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| [7]When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin. |
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| [8]Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer. |
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| [9]Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. |
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| [10]Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations. |
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| [11]Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labours. |
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| [12]Let him have no helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless children. |
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| [13]Let his children be given up to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out. |
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| [14]Let 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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| [15]Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth. |
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| [16]Because he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and that to slay him that was pricked in the heart. |
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| [17]He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. |
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| [18]Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones. |
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| [19]Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually. |
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| [20]This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul. |
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| [21]But thou, O Lord, Lord, deal mercifully with me, for thy name's sake: for thy mercy is good. |
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| [22]Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. |
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| [23]I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts. |
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| [24]My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil. |
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| [25]I became also a reproach to them: when they saw me they shook their heads. |
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| [26]Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to thy mercy. |
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| [27]And let them know that this is thy hand; and that thou, Lord, hast wrought it. |
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| [28]Let them curse, but thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but let thy servant rejoice. |
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| [29]Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. |
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| [30]I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth; and in the midst of many I will praise him. |
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| [31]For he stood on the right hand of the poor, to save me from them that persecute my soul. |
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