The Imprecation Against the Adversary

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Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

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When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

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Let his days be few. 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 wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

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Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

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Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone 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 by the LORD. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

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because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

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Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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

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Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

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This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my soul.