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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; -
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. -
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They encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. -
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer. -
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. -
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. -
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. -
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office. -
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. -
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. -
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labor. -
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Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. -
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. -
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. -
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. -
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Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. -
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As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. -
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. -
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Let it be to him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually. -
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Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. -
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. -
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. -
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. -
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. -
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I became also a reproach to them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads. -
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: -
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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. -
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. -
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Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. -
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude. -
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For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. -
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