The Imprecation Against the Adversary

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¶ Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

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Let his days be few; and let 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 continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

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

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

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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.