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[1]HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;
[2]For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
[3]They have spoken against me with a lying tongue and with a hateful voice, and have fought against me without a cause.
[4]For my love they reproach me; but I have prayed for them.
[5]And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
[6]Command thou vengeance against them; and let Satan stand at their right hand.
[7]When they shall be judged, let them be condemned, and let their prayer become sin.
[8]Let their days be few; and let others take what they have stored.
[9]Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows.
[10]Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
[11]Let the creditor take all that they have, and let the strangers make them to be weakened.
[12]Let there be none to extend mercy unto them; neither let there be any to pity their fatherless children.
[13]Let their end be destruction, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
[14]Let the iniquity of their fathers be remembered; and let not the sin of their mothers be blotted out.
[15]Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
[16]Because they remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy, and him whose heart is sorrowful to death.
[17]They loved cursing, and delighted not in blessings.
[18]They clothed themselves with cursing like armor; it penetrated into them like water, like oil into their bones.
[19]Let it be to them like a mantle which covers them, and like a girdle wherewith they are girded continually.
[20]These are the deeds of those who reproach the LORD, and of those who speak evil against me.
[21]But thou, O LORD, do good to me for thy name's sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
[22]For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
[23]I am bent like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust.
[24]My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away.
[25]And I became also a reproach to them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
[26]Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy,
[27]That they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, LORD, hast done it.
[28]Let them be cursed; but thou shalt be blessed, and let thou thy servant rejoice.
[29]Let them that had a grudge against me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with it as with a mantle.
[30]I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
[31]He has stood at the right hand of the poor, to save his soul from judgment.
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