- [To the chiefe Musician,
A Psalme of Dauid.]
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- Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise.
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- For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against mee: they haue spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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- They compassed mee about also with wordes of hatred: and fought against me without a cause.
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- For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.
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- And they haue rewarded me euill for good: and hatred for my loue.
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- Set thou a wicked man ouer him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
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- When he shall be iudged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sinne.
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- Let his dayes be few: and let another take his office.
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- Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.
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- Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
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- Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoile his labour.
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- Let there be none to extend mercy vnto him: neither let there be any to fauour his fatherlesse children.
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- Let his posteritie be cut off: and in the generation folowing let their name be blotted out.
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- Let the iniquitie of his fathers be remembred with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be blotted out.
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- Let them be before the Lord continually: that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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- Because that he remembred not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poore and needy man: that he might euen slay the broken in heart.
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- As he loued cursing, so let it come vnto him: as hee delighted not in blessing, so let it be farre from him.
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- As he clothed himselfe with cursing like as with his garment: so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
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- Let it be vnto him as the garment which couereth him: and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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- Let this be the reward of mine aduersaries from the Lord: and of them that speake euill against my soule.
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- But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy Names sake: because thy mercie is good: deliuer thou me.
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- For I am poore and needie: and my heart is wounded within me.
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- I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
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- My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.
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- I became also a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they shaked their heads.
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- Helpe me, O Lord my God: O saue me according to thy mercie.
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- That they may know, that this is thy hand: that thou, Lord, hast done it.
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- Let them curse, but blesse thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy seruant reioyce.
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- Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: and let them couer them selues with their owne confusion, as with a mantle.
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- I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth: yea I will praise him among the multitude.
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- For he shal stand at the right hand of the poore: to saue him from those that condemne his soule.
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