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- O God of my praise, Do not be silent!
- For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause.
- In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.
- Thus they have repaid me evil for good And hatred for my love.
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- Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
- When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
- Let his days be few; Let another take his office.
- Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.
- Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
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- Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.
- Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
- Let his posterity be cut off; In a following generation let their name be blotted out.
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