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Chapter 109
Psal Geneva15 109:1  To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.
Psal Geneva15 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.
Psal Geneva15 109:3  They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psal Geneva15 109:4  For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
Psal Geneva15 109:5  And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
Psal Geneva15 109:6  Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.
Psal Geneva15 109:7  Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.
Psal Geneva15 109:8  Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.
Psal Geneva15 109:9  Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.
Psal Geneva15 109:10  Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
Psal Geneva15 109:11  Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.
Psal Geneva15 109:12  Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.
Psal Geneva15 109:13  Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
Psal Geneva15 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.
Psal Geneva15 109:15  But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.
Psal Geneva15 109:16  Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.
Psal Geneva15 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.
Psal Geneva15 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.
Psal Geneva15 109:19  Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.
Psal Geneva15 109:20  Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.
Psal Geneva15 109:21  But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)
Psal Geneva15 109:22  Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
Psal Geneva15 109:23  I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
Psal Geneva15 109:24  My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
Psal Geneva15 109:25  I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.
Psal Geneva15 109:26  Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.
Psal Geneva15 109:27  And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
Psal Geneva15 109:28  Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.
Psal Geneva15 109:29  Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.
Psal Geneva15 109:30  I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.
Psal Geneva15 109:31  For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.