Ps.109.1

My God, don't turn a deaf ear to my hallelujah prayer.

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O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

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Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!

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O God, whom I praise, don't stand silent and aloof

Ps.109.2

Liars are pouring out invective on me; Their lying tongues are like a pack of dogs out to get me,

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for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.

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barking their hate, nipping my heels--and for no reason!

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With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

Ps.109.3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

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They are all around me with their hateful words, and they fight against me for no reason.

Ps.109.4

I loved them and now they slander me--yes, me!- and treat my prayer like a crime;

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In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

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In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.

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I love them, but they try to destroy me--even as I am praying for them!

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They return my good with evil, they return my love with hate.

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They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

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Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

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They return evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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Send the Evil One to accuse my accusing judge; dispatch Satan to prosecute him.

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Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

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Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

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Arrange for an evil person to turn on him. Send an accuser to bring him to trial.

Ps.109.7

When he's judged, let the verdict be, "Guilty," and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin.

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When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

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When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.

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When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins.

Ps.109.8

Give him a short life, and give his job to somebody else.

Ps.109.8

May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

Ps.109.8

Let his days be few, And let another take his office.

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Let his years be few; let his position be given to someone else.

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Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow's weeds;

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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Ps.109.9

May his children become fatherless, and may his wife become a widow.

Ps.109.10

Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their homes--homeless.

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May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

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Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

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May his children wander as beggars; may they be evicted from their ruined homes.

Ps.109.11

May the bank foreclose and wipe him out, and strangers, like vultures, pick him clean.

Ps.109.11

May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

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Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.

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May creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers take all he has earned.

Ps.109.12

May there be no one around to help him out, no one willing to give his orphans a break.

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May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

Ps.109.12

Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

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Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.

Ps.109.13

Chop down his family tree so that nobody even remembers his name.

Ps.109.13

May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

Ps.109.13

Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation.

Ps.109.14

But erect a memorial to the sin of his father, and make sure his mother's name is there, too--

Ps.109.14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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May the LORD never forget the sins of his ancestors; may his mother's sins never be erased from the record.

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Their sins recorded forever before GOD, but they themselves sunk in oblivion.

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May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

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May these sins always remain before the LORD, but may his name be cut off from human memory.

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That's all he deserves since he was never once kind, hounded the afflicted and heartbroken to their graves.

Ps.109.16

For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.

Ps.109.16

Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.

Ps.109.16

For he refused all kindness to others; he persecuted the poor and needy, and he hounded the brokenhearted to death.

Ps.109.17

Since he loved cursing so much, let curses rain down; Since he had no taste for blessing, let blessings flee far from him.

Ps.109.17

He loved to pronounce a curse- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing- may it be far from him.

Ps.109.17

As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don't you bless him.

Ps.109.18

He dressed up in curses like a fine suit of clothes; he drank curses, took his baths in curses.

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He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

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As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.

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Cursing is as much a part of him as his clothing, or as the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.

Ps.109.19

So give him a gift--a costume of curses; he can wear curses every day of the week!

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May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

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Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

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Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.

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That's what they'll get, those out to get me--an avalanche of just deserts from GOD.

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May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

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Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.

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May those curses become the LORD's punishment for my accusers who are plotting against my life.