{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 109,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul."
  }
 ],
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