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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy; let an accuser stand at his right hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. |
| 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 be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He loved to pronounce a curse-- may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing-- may it be far from him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Let them know that it is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them. |
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