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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Explain This Verse
3.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. Explain This Verse
4.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. Explain This Verse
5.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Explain This Verse
6.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. Explain This Verse
7.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Explain This Verse
8.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Explain This Verse
9.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Explain This Verse
10.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Explain This Verse
11.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Explain This Verse
12.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. Explain This Verse
13.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Explain This Verse
14.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Explain This Verse
15.
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. Explain This Verse
16.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. Explain This Verse
17.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. Explain This Verse
18.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Explain This Verse
19.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Explain This Verse
20.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul. Explain This Verse
21.
But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. Explain This Verse
22.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Explain This Verse
23.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Explain This Verse
24.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. Explain This Verse
25.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. Explain This Verse
26.
Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: Explain This Verse
27.
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it. Explain This Verse
28.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. Explain This Verse
29.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. Explain This Verse
30.
I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. Explain This Verse
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. Explain This Verse