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[1]<Tothe chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.> Holde not thy tongue: O thou the Lorde of my prayse
[2]Forthe mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue
[3]Andthey haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause
[4]Forthe loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer
[5]Thushaue they rewarded me euyll for good: and hatred for my good wyll
[6]Setthou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer him: and let Satan stande at his right hande
[7]Whensentence is geuen vpon hym, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sinne
[8]Lethis dayes be fewe: and let another take his office
[9]Lethis chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe
[10]Lethis children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes
[11]Letthe extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour
[12]Letthere be no man to shewe hym any gentlenes: nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children
[13]Lethis posteritie come to destruction: and in the next generation let his name be cleane put out
[14]Letthe wyckednes of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of God: and let not the sinne of his mother be wyped away
[15]Letthem be alway before God: that he may roote out the memorial of them from the earth
[16]Becausethat he remembred not to do good: but he persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and hym whose heart was broken with sorow, that he might take his life from hym
[17]Hisdelight was in cursing, and it shal happen vnto him: he loued not blessing, therfore it hath ben farre from him
[18]Heclothed hym selfe with cursing, as with his garment: and it hath entred into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones
[19]Letit be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall
[20]Letthis rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule
[21]Butthou O God my Lorde, do vnto me according vnto thy name: for sweete is thy mercy
[22]Deliuerme, for truely I am afflicted: and I am poore, and my heart is wounded within me
[23]Ipasse away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper
[24]Myknees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse
[25]Iam become also a reproche vnto them: they gase vpon me [and] they shake their head
[26]Helpeme O my Lorde: oh saue me according to thy mercy
[27]Andlet the know how that this is thy hande: & that thou O God hast done it
[28]Theywill curse, but thou wylt blesse: they wyl rise vp [against me] but let them be confounded, and thy seruaunt wyll reioyce
[29]Letmine aduersaries be clothed with shame: & let them couer the selues with their owne cofusion, as with a garment
[30]Asfor me I will greatly prayse God with my mouth: and I wyll prayse hym among the multitude
[31]Forhe wyll stande at the right hande of the poore: to saue him from the iudges of his soule
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