Prayer for Vindication and Retribution

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Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

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Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

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Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

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Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

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Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

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Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

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Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

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Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

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Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

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Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

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Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

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Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.