Chapter 109

  To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent,  

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  For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!  

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  They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.  

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  For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer!  

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  And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.  

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  Appoint Thou over him the wicked, And an adversary standeth at his right hand.  

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  In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.  

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  His days are few, his oversight another taketh,  

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  His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.  

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  And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.  

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  An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.  

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  He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.  

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  His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.  

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  The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.  

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  They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.  

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  Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,  

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  And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.  

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  And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.  

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  It is to him as apparel -- he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on.  

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  This [is] the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.  

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  And Thou, O Jehovah Lord, Deal with me for Thy name's sake, Because Thy kindness [is] good, deliver me.  

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  For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.  

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  As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.  

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  My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.  

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  And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.  

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  Help me, O Jehovah my God, Save me, according to Thy kindness.  

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  And they know that this [is] Thy hand, Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast done it.  

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  They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.  

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  Mine accusers put on blushing, and are covered, As an upper robe [is] their shame.  

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  I thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I praise Him,  

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  For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.  

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