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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Be not silent, O God of my praise! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8May his days be few; may another take his office! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it! |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak! |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death. |
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