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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 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 unto
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 the strangers spoil his labour.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour 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 L
ORD
; and let not the sin of his
mother be blotted out.
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Let them be before the L
ORD
continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from
the earth.
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Because that he remembered not to shew 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 unto 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 unto him as the garment
which
covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is
girded continually.
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Let
this
be
the reward of mine adversaries from the L
ORD
, 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 unto them:
when
they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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Help me, O L
ORD
my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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That they may know that this
is
thy hand;
that
thou, L
ORD
, hast done it.
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