| Chapter 108 |
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Unto the end, a psalm for David. |
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O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. |
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They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause. |
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Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. |
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And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. |
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Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. |
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When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. |
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May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. |
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May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. |
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Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. |
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May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours. |
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May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. |
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May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out. |
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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
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May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: |
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because he remembered not to show mercy, |
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But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. |
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And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. |
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May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually. |
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This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul. |
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But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me. |
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for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. |
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I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. |
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My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. |
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And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads, |
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Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy. |
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And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it. |
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They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. |
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Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak. |
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I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. |
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Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors |
