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109:1  Hold not 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 against me with a lying tongue.
109:3  They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
109:4  For my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.
109:5  They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6  Set Thou a 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 be counted as 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 also out of their desolate places.
109:11  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers despoil his labor.
109:12  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
109:13  Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation to follow let their name be blotted out.
109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by 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 remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:17  As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.
109:19  Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and as a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20  Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord and of them that speak evil against my soul.
109:21  But do Thou for me, O God the Lord, for Thy name’s sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou 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 declineth; I am tossed up and down as the locust.
109:24  My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:25  I have become a reproach also 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, Lord, hast done it.
109:28  Let them curse, but Thou bless; when they arise let them be ashamed, but let Thy servant rejoice.
109:29  Let mine adversaries 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, to save him from those that condemn his soul.