| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, Do not be silent! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Thus they have repaid me evil for good And hatred for my love. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, And let his prayer become sin. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let his days be few; Let another take his office. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Let his posterity be cut off; In a following generation let their name be blotted out. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And do not let 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 their memory from the earth; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered into his body like water And like oil into his bones. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Let this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me; |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I also have become a reproach to them; When they see me, they wag their head. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Help me, O LORD my God; Save me according to Your lovingkindness. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And let them know that this is Your hand; You, LORD, have done it. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, they shall be ashamed, But Your servant shall be glad. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD; And in the midst of many I will praise Him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul. |
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