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109:1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
109:4 For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
109:5 And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
109:6 Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.
109:7 Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.
109:8 Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.
109:9 Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.
109:10 Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.
109:12 Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.
109:13 Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
109:14 Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.
109:15 But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.
109:16 Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.
109:17 As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.
109:18 As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
109:19 Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.
109:20 Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.
109:21 But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)
109:22 Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
109:24 My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
109:25 I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.
109:26 Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.
109:27 And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
109:28 Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.
109:29 Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.
109:30 I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.
109:31 For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.