The Imprecation Against the Adversary

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Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

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When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.

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Let his days be few; Andlet another take his office.

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

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Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

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Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

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Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

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Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them.

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Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

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Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

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This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.