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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise (109:1)

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 (109:2)

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause (109:3)

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer (109:4)

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love (109:5)

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand (109:6)

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin (109:7)

Let his days be few; and let another take his office (109:8)

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow (109:9)

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places (109:10)

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour (109:11)

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children (109:12)

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out (109:13)

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out (109:14)

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth (109:15)

Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart (109:16)

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him (109:17)

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 (109:18)

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually (109:19)

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul (109:20)

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me (109:21)

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me (109:22)

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust (109:23)

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness (109:24)

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads (109:25)

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy (109:26)

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it (109:27)

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice (109:28)

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle (109:29)

I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude (109:30)

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul (109:31)

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