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Rh :They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
 * They compassed me about also with words of hatred,
 * And fought against me without a cause.
 * In return for my love they are my adversaries;
 * But I am all prayer.
 * And they have laid upon me evil for good,
 * And hatred for my love:


 * 'Set Thou a wicked man over him;
 * And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
 * When he is judged, let him go forth condemned;
 * And let his prayer be turned into sin.
 * Let his days be few;
 * Let another take his charge.
 * Let his children be fatherless,
 * And his wife a widow.
 * Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
 * And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
 * Let the creditor distrain all that he hath;
 * And let strangers make spoil of his labour.
 * Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
 * Neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
 * Let his posterity be cut off;
 * In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
 * Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the ;
 * And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
 * Let them be before the continually,
 * That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
 * Because that he remembered not to do kindness,
 * But persecuted the poor and needy man,
 * And the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
 * Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
 * And he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
 * He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment,
 * And it is come into his inward parts like water,
 * And like oil into his bones.
 * Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on,
 * And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'


 * This would mine adversaries effect from the ,
 * And they that speak evil against my soul.
 * But Thou, O the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake;
 * Because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
 * For I am poor and needy,
 * And my heart is wounded within me.
 * I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth;
 * I am shaken off as the locust.
 * My knees totter through fasting;
 * And my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
 * I am become also a taunt unto them;
 * When they see me, they shake their head.


 * Help me, O my God;
 * O save me according to Thy mercy;
 * That they may know that this is Thy hand;