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740 Book of Psalms

10 Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I 11 May the usurer search all his substance:
will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become and let strangers plunder his labours.
my friends. 12 May there be none to help him: nor none
11 Who will bring me into the strong city? to pity his fatherless offspring.
who will lead me into Edom? 13 May his posterity be cut off; in one gener-
12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off ation may his name be blotted out.
? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remem-
armies? bered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the
13 O grant us help from trouble: for vain is sin of his mother be blotted out.
the help of man. 15 May they be before the Lord continually,
14 Through God we shall do mightily: and he and let the memory of them perish from the
will bring our enemies to nothing. earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew
mercy,
17 But persecuted the poor man and the beg-
Chapter 108 gar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come
Unto the end, a psalm for David. unto him: and he would not have blessing, and
2 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,
the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the like a garment: and it went in like water into his
deceitful man is opened against me. entrails, and like oil in his bones.
3 They have spoken against me with deceit- 19 May it be unto him like a garment which
ful tongues; and they have compassed me about covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is
with words of hatred; and have fought against girded continually.
me without cause. 20 This is the work of them who detract me
4 Instead of making me a return of love, they before the Lord; and who speak evils against my
detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. soul.
5 And they repaid me evil for good: and ha- 21 But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy
tred for my love. name’s sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do
6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the thou deliver me,
devil stand at his right hand. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is
7 When he is judged, may he go out con- troubled within me.
demned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. 23 I am taken away like the shadow when it
8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
another take. 24 My knees are weakened through fasting:
9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife and my flesh is changed for oil.
a widow. 25 And I am become a reproach to them: they
10 Let his children be carried about saw me and they shaked their heads.
vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out 26 Help me, O Lord my God; save me; accord-
of their dwellings. ing to thy mercy.