Psa. 109
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109:1
1O God of my praise, do not be silent;
Psa. 109
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109:2
For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened
against me;
They speak to me with a lying tongue.
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109:3
And with words of hatred they have surrounded me
And have fought against me without cause.
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109:4
In return for my love they have become my adversaries,
But I am
all prayer.
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109:5
And they have set against me evil in return for good
And hatred in return for my love.
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109:6
Appoint a wicked man over him,
And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
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109:7
When he is judged, let him come forth wicked;
And let his prayer be counted as sin.
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109:8
May his days be few;
aMay another take his office.
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109:9
May his children be orphans,
And his wife a widow.
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109:10
And may his children wander all about and beg,
And may they seek
food far from their desolated ruins.
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109:11
May the creditor seize all that he has,
And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
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109:12
May there be no one to extend him mercy,
Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
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109:13
May his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following may
1his name be blotted out.
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109:14
May his father’s iniquity be remembered before Jehovah,
And may his mother’s sin not be blotted out.
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109:15
May they be before Jehovah continually,
So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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109:16
Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted,
To put
them to death.
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109:17
Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him;
And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
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109:18
And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment,
So it came into his inward parts like water
And into his bones like oil.
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109:19
Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself,
And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
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109:20
This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversaries
And for those who speak evil against my soul.
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109:21
But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me,
For Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
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109:22
For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
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109:23
I am gone like a shadow that declines;
I am shaken off like the locust.
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109:24
My knees wobble through fasting,
And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
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109:25
I have also become a
areproach to them:
When they see me, they
bshake their heads.
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109:26
Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
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109:27
And they will know that this is Your hand,
That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
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109:28
Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they will be put to shame,
And Your servant will rejoice.
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109:29
May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation,
And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
Psa. 109
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109:30
I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth,
And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
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109:31
For He stands at the right hand of the needy
To save
him from those who judge his soul.
