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¹ O God of my praise! ² They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. ³ And fought against me without a cause. ⁴ But I give myself to prayer. ⁵ And hatred for my love. ⁶ And let an accuser stand at his right hand. ⁷ And let his prayer become sin. ⁸ And let another take his office. ⁹ And his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. ¹¹ And let strangers plunder his labor. ¹² Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. ¹³ And in the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴ And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth; ¹⁶ That he might even slay the broken in heart. ¹⁷ As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. ¹⁸ And like oil into his bones. ¹⁹ And for a belt with which he girds himself continually. ²⁰ And to those who speak evil against my person. ²¹ Because Your mercy is good, deliver me. ²² And my heart is wounded within me. ²³ I am shaken off like a locust. ²⁴ And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness. ²⁵ When they look at me, they shake their heads. ²⁶ Oh, save me according to Your mercy, ²⁷ That You, Lord, have done it! ²⁸ But let Your servant rejoice. ²⁹ And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle. ³⁰ Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude. ³¹ To save him from those who condemn him.