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109:1  To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David. Do not hold thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:2  for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken of me with a lying tongue.
109:3  They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.
109:4  They have responded to my love by becoming my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.
109:5  And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6  Set thou the wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin.
109:8  Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
109:9  Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
109:10  Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
109:11  Let the extortioner catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labour.
109:12  Let there be no one to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
109:13  Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15  Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
109:16  Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.
109:17  As he loved the curse, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in the blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18  As he clothed himself with the curse like as with his garment, and it entered into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.
109:19  Let it be unto him as the garment which covers him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20  Let this be the reward from the LORD of those who spoke falsely against me and of those that speak evil against my soul.
109:21  And thou, O GOD the Lord, do unto me for thy name’s sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver me.
109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23  I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.
109:24  My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness.
109:25  I have become a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
109:26  Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy,
109:27  that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, O LORD, hast done it.
109:28  Let them curse, but bless thou; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy slave rejoice.
109:29  Let those who speak evil against me falsely be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle.
109:30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
109:31  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor in spirit to save his soul from those that judge him.