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The Complaint: Betrayal by False Witnesses
Psalms 35:11-18
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¶ False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
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They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
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I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
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But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
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With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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¶ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
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I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
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