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Because that he remembered not to show 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 to 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 to him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.
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[Let] this [be] the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.
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For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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I became also a reproach to them: [when] they looked upon me they shook their heads.
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: