1Unto the end, a psalm for David.

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2O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

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Psalms 57:7, Psalms 57:11, Psalms 145:21, Psalms 146:2, Psalms 57:7

3They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.

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Psalms 69:30, Psalms 69:30, Psalms 81:2, Psalms 81:2, Psalms 33:2

4Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

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Psalms 22:27, Psalms 22:22, Psalms 22:27, Psalms 22:22, Psalms 117:1

5And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

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Psalms 36:5, Psalms 36:5, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:7, Psalms 103:11

6Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.

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Psalms 57:5, Psalms 57:5, Matthew 6:9, Matthew 6:10, Matthew 6:9

7When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

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2 Chronicles 32:20, 2 Chronicles 32:22, Psalms 60:5, Psalms 60:12, 2 Chronicles 32:20

8May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.

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2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 1:8, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:4

9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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Genesis 49:10, Genesis 49:10, Psalms 122:5, Psalms 122:5, Joshua 13:8

10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

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John 13:8, Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 14:32, 2 Samuel 21:15, 2 Samuel 21:22

11May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

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Psalms 60:1, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:6, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4

12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

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Psalms 44:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12, Psalms 44:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 1 Samuel 17:36

13May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

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Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:8, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:8, Lamentations 4:17

14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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Psalms 118:6, Psalms 118:13, Psalms 118:6, Psalms 118:13, Psalms 60:12

15May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

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16because he remembered not to shew mercy,

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17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

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18And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.

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19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

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20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

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21But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,

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22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

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23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

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24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

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25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.

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26Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.

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27And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.

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28They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

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29Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

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30I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.

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31Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.

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