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Psalms 108:9-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

11. May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15. May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

16. because he remembered not to show mercy,

17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.

19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

21. But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,

22. for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,

26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.

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