Ps 109
0 Psalm 109 For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.
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Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against
me: They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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They have compassed me about 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 you a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
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When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into 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 vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their
desolate places.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
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Let there be none to extend kindness to him; Neither let there be any to have pity
on his fatherless children.
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Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted
out.
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with YHWH; And let not the sin
of his mother be blotted out.
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Let them be before YHWH continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the
earth;
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Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay [them].
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Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it
was far from him.
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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his
inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
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Let it be to him as the raiment wherewith he covers himself, And for the girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
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This is the reward of mine adversaries from YHWH, And of them that speak evil against
my soul.
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But deal you with me, O YHWH the Lord, for your name`s sake: Because your lovingkindness
is good, deliver you 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 declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
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I am become also a reproach to them: When they see me, they shake their head.
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Help me, O YHWH my God; Oh save me according to your lovingkindness:
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That they may know that this is your hand; [That] you, YHWH, have done it.
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Let them curse, but bless you: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But your
servant shall rejoice.
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with
their own shame as with a robe.
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I will give great thanks to YHWH with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
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For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge
his soul.