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The Complaint: Betrayal by False Witnesses
Psalms 35:11-18
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Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
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They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.
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Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.
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I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.
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But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
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With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
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Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.
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So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
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