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To the Overseer. A melody of Daviyd. Elohim of my praise, do not be silent.
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For a wicked mouth and mouth of deceit have opened against me; they speak with me by a tongue of falsehood.
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Words of hatred surround me; they fight me without cause.
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In return for my love they accuse me, but I am prayer.
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They set evil upon me for good, and hatred for my love.
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Appoint a wicked one over him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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When he is judged, let him go out wicked, and let his prayer become sin.
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Let his days be few; let another take his office.
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Let his sons be fatherless and his ishah a widow.
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Let his sons wander and seek; let them search from their ruins.
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Let a creditor ensnare all he has, and let strangers plunder his labor.
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Let none continue covenant-love toward him, and let none show favor to his fatherless ones.
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Let his latter end be cut off; in the generation afterward let their name be blotted.
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Let the crookedness of his fathers be remembered before Yahuah, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted.
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Let them be before Yahuah continually, and let He cut their remembrance from the earth,
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because he did not remember to work covenant-love, but pursued an afflicted and needy ish, and the broken of heart, to put him to death.
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He loved cursing, and it came to him; he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
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He clothed himself in cursing like his garment; it entered within him like water and like oil into his bones.
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Let it be to him like clothing wrapping him, and as a belt continually girding him.
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This is the reward of my accusers from Yahuah, and of those speaking evil against my being.
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But You, Yahuah Adonai, deal with me for the sake of Your Name; because Your covenant-love is good, rescue me.
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For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
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Like a shadow when it stretches, I depart; I am shaken away like a locust.
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My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean without fatness.
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I have become a reproach to them; they see me and shake their head.
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Help me, Yahuah my Elohim; save me according to Your covenant-love.
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Let them know this is Your hand, that You, Yahuah, have done it.
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Let them curse, but You bless. They arise and are ashamed, but Your servant rejoices.
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Let my accusers clothe themselves in humiliation and wrap their shame like a robe.
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I greatly thank Yahuah with my mouth; in the midst of many I praise Him.
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For He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those judging his being.