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XXXVI:1-12 1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. 5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. 7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life in thy light shall we see light. 100 continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. 11 Let not the foot of pride hand of the wicked remove me. come against me, and let not the 12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise. 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LVIII:1-11 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. 7 Let them melt away as waters bendeth his bow to shoot his arwhich run continually: when he rows, let them be as cut in pieces. 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall rejoice 10 Which perished at Endor: when he seeth the vengeance: he they became as dung from the shall wash his feet in the blood of earth. the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. PS. LXXXIII:1-18 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. * 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them 5 For they have consulted to-be put to shame, and perish: gether with one consent; they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 18 That men may know that HOVAH, art the most High over thou, whose name alone is JE all the earth. PS. CIX:1-31 1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are 9 Do unto them as unto the opened against me: they have Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Ja- spoken against me with a lying bin at the brook of Kison; tongue. *Ps. 83:3-"They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones." 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 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. 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and 8 Let his days be few; and let for a girdle wherewith he is girded another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. continually. |