1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.

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Psalms 28:1, Psalms 28:1, Deuteronomy 10:21, Psalms 83:1, Deuteronomy 10:21

2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

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Psalms 52:4, Psalms 52:4, Jeremiah 9:5, Proverbs 6:17, Jeremiah 9:5

3They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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Psalms 69:4, Psalms 69:4, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:20

4For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.

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Psalms 38:20, Psalms 38:20, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 69:13, Psalms 69:12

5And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

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Proverbs 17:13, Proverbs 17:13, Genesis 44:4, Psalms 38:20, Psalms 55:12

6Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.

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Zechariah 3:1, Zechariah 3:1, Matthew 5:25, Matthew 5:25, Matthew 27:4

7Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.

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Proverbs 28:9, Proverbs 28:9, Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 15:8

8Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.

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Psalms 55:23, Psalms 55:23, Acts 1:16, Acts 1:26, Acts 1:16

9Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

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Exodus 22:24, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Jeremiah 18:21, Lamentations 5:3

10Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

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Psalms 37:25, Psalms 37:25, Genesis 4:12, Genesis 4:14, Genesis 4:12

11Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

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Job 5:5, Job 5:5, Job 18:9, Job 18:19, Deuteronomy 28:29

12Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

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Matthew 27:25, James 2:13, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Luke 6:38

13Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.

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Proverbs 10:7, Proverbs 10:7, Job 18:19, Psalms 37:28, Job 18:19

14Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

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Exodus 20:5, Nehemiah 4:5, Exodus 20:5, Nehemiah 4:5, Jeremiah 18:23

15But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.

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Psalms 34:16, Psalms 34:16, Psalms 90:8, Job 18:17, Psalms 90:8

16Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

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Psalms 34:18, Psalms 34:18, Matthew 18:33, Matthew 18:35, Psalms 37:14

17As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

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Matthew 7:2, Proverbs 14:14, Matthew 7:2, Proverbs 14:14, Ezekiel 35:6

18As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.

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Psalms 73:6, Psalms 73:6, Numbers 5:22, Numbers 5:22, Colossians 3:12

19Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

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Psalms 109:29, Psalms 109:29, Psalms 132:18, Psalms 132:18, Psalms 109:18

20Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.

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Psalms 94:23, 1 Kings 2:44, 2 Timothy 4:14, Psalms 94:23, 1 Kings 2:44

21But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)

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Psalms 31:3, Psalms 69:16, Psalms 31:3, Psalms 69:16, Psalms 79:9

22Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

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Psalms 86:1, Psalms 86:1, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 40:17, Psalms 102:4

23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

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Exodus 10:19, Exodus 10:19, Job 14:2, Psalms 102:10, Psalms 102:11

24My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

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Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 22:14, Matthew 4:2, Hebrews 12:12

25I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

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Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 69:19

26Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.

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Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:86, Psalms 69:13, Psalms 57:1, Hebrews 5:7

27And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

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Job 37:7, Job 37:7, 1 Kings 18:36, 1 Kings 18:37, 1 Kings 18:36

28Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.

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Numbers 23:20, Numbers 23:20, John 16:22, John 16:22, Psalms 109:17

29Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.

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Psalms 132:18, Psalms 35:26, Psalms 132:18, Psalms 35:26, Job 8:22

30I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.

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Psalms 111:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 35:18, Psalms 35:18, Psalms 22:22

31For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.

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Psalms 121:5, Psalms 121:5, Psalms 16:8, Psalms 16:8, Psalms 140:12