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¹ HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;³ They have spoken against me with a lying tongue and with a hateful voice, and have fought against me without a cause.⁴ For my love they reproach me; but I have prayed for them.⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶ Command thou vengeance against them; and let Satan stand at their right hand.⁷ When they shall be judged, let them be condemned, and let their prayer become sin.⁸ Let their days be few; and let others take what they have stored.⁹ Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows.¹⁰ Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.¹¹ Let the creditor take all that they have, and let the strangers make them to be weakened.¹² Let there be none to extend mercy unto them; neither let there be any to pity their fatherless children.¹³ Let their end be destruction, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.¹⁴ Let the iniquity of their fathers be remembered; and let not the sin of their mothers be blotted out.¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,¹⁶ Because they remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy, and him whose heart is sorrowful to death.¹⁷ They loved cursing, and delighted not in blessings.¹⁸ They clothed themselves with cursing like armor; it penetrated into them like water, like oil into their bones.¹⁹ Let it be to them like a mantle which covers them, and like a girdle wherewith they are girded continually.²⁰ These are the deeds of those who reproach the LORD, and of those who speak evil against me.

²¹ But thou, O LORD, do good to me for thy names sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.²³ I am bent like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust.²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away.²⁵ And I became also a reproach to them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy,²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, LORD, hast done it.²⁸ Let them be cursed; but thou shalt be blessed, and let thou thy servant rejoice.²⁹ Let them that had a grudge against me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with it as with a mantle.³⁰ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.³¹ He has stood at the right hand of the poor, to save his soul from judgment.