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PSALMS
109.27
- They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
- 3They compassed me about also with words of hatred,
- And fought against me without a cause.
- 4In return for my love they are my adversaries;
- But I am all prayer.
- 5And they have laid upon me evil for good,
- And hatred for my love:
- 6'Set Thou a wicked man over him;
- And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- 7When he is judged, let him go forth condemned;
- And let his prayer be turned into sin.
- 8Let his days be few;
- Let another take his charge.
- 9Let his children be fatherless,
- And his wife a widow.
- 10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
- And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
- 11Let the creditor distrain all that he hath;
- And let strangers make spoil of his labour.
- 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
- Neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
- 13Let his posterity be cut off;
- In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the Lord;
- And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- 15Let them be before the Lord continually,
- That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- 16Because that he remembered not to do kindness,
- But persecuted the poor and needy man,
- And the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
- 17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
- And he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
- 18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment,
- And it is come into his inward parts like water,
- And like oil into his bones.
- 19Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on,
- And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
- 20This would mine adversaries effect from the Lord,
- And they that speak evil against my soul.
- 21But Thou, O God the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake;
- Because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
- 22For I am poor and needy,
- And my heart is wounded within me.
- 23I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth;
- I am shaken off as the locust.
- 24My knees totter through fasting;
- And my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
- 25I am become also a taunt unto them;
- When they see me, they shake their head.
- 26Help me, O Lord my God;
- O save me according to Thy mercy;
- 27That they may know that this is Thy hand;
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