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| [1]The `title of the hundrid and nynthe salm. `The salm of Dauith. The Lord seide to my Lord; Sitte thou on my riyt side. Til Y putte thin enemyes; a stool of thi feet. |
[1]HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise; |
| [2]The Lord schal sende out fro Syon the yerde of thi vertu; be thou lord in the myddis of thin enemyes. |
[2]For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; |
| [3]The bigynnyng is with thee in the dai of thi vertu, in the briytnessis of seyntis; Y gendride thee of the wombe before the dai sterre. |
[3]They have spoken against me with a lying tongue and with a hateful voice, and have fought against me without a cause. |
| [4]The Lord swoor, and it schal not repente him; Thou art a preest with outen ende, bi the ordre of Melchisedech. |
[4]For my love they reproach me; but I have prayed for them. |
| [5]The Lord on thi riyt side; hath broke kyngis in the dai of his veniaunce. |
[5]And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
| [6]He schal deme among naciouns, he schal fille fallyngis; he schal schake heedis in the lond of many men. |
[6]Command thou vengeance against them; and let Satan stand at their right hand. |
| [7]He dranke of the stronde in the weie; therfor he enhaunside the heed. |
[7]When they shall be judged, let them be condemned, and let their prayer become sin. |
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[8]Let their days be few; and let others take what they have stored. |
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[9]Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows. |
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[10]Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. |
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[11]Let the creditor take all that they have, and let the strangers make them to be weakened. |
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[12]Let there be none to extend mercy unto them; neither let there be any to pity their fatherless children. |
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[13]Let their end be destruction, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. |
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[14]Let the iniquity of their fathers be remembered; and let not the sin of their mothers be blotted out. |
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[15]Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, |
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[16]Because they remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy, and him whose heart is sorrowful to death. |
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[17]They loved cursing, and delighted not in blessings. |
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[18]They clothed themselves with cursing like armor; it penetrated into them like water, like oil into their bones. |
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[19]Let it be to them like a mantle which covers them, and like a girdle wherewith they are girded continually. |
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[20]These are the deeds of those who reproach the LORD, and of those who speak evil against me. |
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[21]But thou, O LORD, do good to me for thy name's sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. |
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[22]For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. |
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[23]I am bent like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust. |
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[24]My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away. |
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[25]And I became also a reproach to them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads. |
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[26]Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy, |
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[27]That they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, LORD, hast done it. |
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[28]Let them be cursed; but thou shalt be blessed, and let thou thy servant rejoice. |
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[29]Let them that had a grudge against me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with it as with a mantle. |
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[30]I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. |
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[31]He has stood at the right hand of the poor, to save his soul from judgment. |