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Psalm 109

	Psa 109:1	To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!
	Psa 109:2	For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
	Psa 109:3	They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
	Psa 109:4	In return for my love they are my accusers, But I [give myself to] prayer.
	Psa 109:5	Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
	Psa 109:6	Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser [fn] stand at his right hand.
	Psa 109:7	When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
	Psa 109:8	Let his days be few, [And] let another take his office.
	Psa 109:9	Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
	Psa 109:10	Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek [their bread] [fn] also from their desolate places.
	Psa 109:11	Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.
	Psa 109:12	Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
	Psa 109:13	Let his posterity be cut off, [And] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
	Psa 109:14	Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
	Psa 109:15	Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
	Psa 109:16	Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.
	Psa 109:17	As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
	Psa 109:18	As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
	Psa 109:19	Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
	Psa 109:20	[Let] this [be] the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.
	Psa 109:21	But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy [is] good, deliver me.
	Psa 109:22	For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
	Psa 109:23	I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
	Psa 109:24	My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
	Psa 109:25	I also have become a reproach to them; [When] they look at me, they shake their heads.
	Psa 109:26	Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
	Psa 109:27	That they may know that this [is] Your hand--[That] You, LORD, have done it!
	Psa 109:28	Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.
	Psa 109:29	Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
	Psa 109:30	I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.
	Psa 109:31	For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save [him] from those who condemn him.

NKJV Footnotes:

(109:6) Hebrew satan
(109:10) Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint and Vulgate read be cast out.

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