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The Imprecatory Psalms KJV 5, 10, 17, 35, 58, 59, 69, 70, 79, 83, 109, 129, 137, 140 Psalm 5 1 Give Ear to My Words, O LORD

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The Imprecatory Psalms KJV 5, 10, 17, 35, 58, 59, 69, 70, 79, 83, 109, 129, 137, 140 Psalm 5 1 Give Ear to My Words, O LORD The Imprecatory Psalms KJV 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and 5, 10, 17, 35, 58, 59, 69, 70, 79, 83, 109, 129, fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 137, 140 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: Psalm 5 his eyes are privily set against the poor. 1 9 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he meditation. lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and poor, when he draweth him into his net. my God: for unto thee will I pray. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, poor may fall by his strong ones. 11 O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: unto thee, and will look up. he hideth his face; he will never see it. 4 12 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. not the humble. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hatest all workers of iniquity. hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the committeth himself unto thee; thou art the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I helper of the fatherless. worship toward thy holy temple. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil 8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16 of mine enemies; make thy way straight before The LORD is King for ever and ever: the my face. heathen are perished out of his land. 9 17 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. cause thine ear to hear: 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that their own counsels; cast them out in the the man of the earth may no more oppress. multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee Psalm 17 1 rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, defendest them: let them also that love thy name give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of be joyful in thee. feigned lips. 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited Psalm 10 me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall thou thyself in times of trouble? not transgress. 4 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: Concerning the works of men, by the word of let them be taken in the devices that they have thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. imagined. 5 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my and blesseth the covetous, whom footsteps slip not. 6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. countenance, will not seek after God: God is not 7 in all his thoughts. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments that savest by thy right hand them which put are far above out of his sight: as for all his their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. enemies, he puffeth at them. 8 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under for I shall never be in adversity. the shadow of thy wings, 1 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my deadly enemies, who compass me about. friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their that mourneth for his mother. mouth they speak proudly. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects they have set their eyes bowing down to the gathered themselves together against me, and I earth; knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they it were a young lion lurking in secret places. gnashed upon me with their teeth. 13 17 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy soul from their destructions, my darling from the sword: lions. 14 18 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from I will give thee thanks in the great men of the world, which have their portion in this congregation: I will praise thee among much life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid people. treasure: they are full of children, and leave the 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rest of their substance to their babes. rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in eye that hate me without a cause. righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise with thy likeness. deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Psalm 35 21 1 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. with me: fight against them that fight against 22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: me. 2 O Lord, be not far from me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, for mine help. 3 even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy against them that persecute me: say unto my righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. soul, I am thy salvation. 25 4 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would Let them be confounded and put to shame that we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed seek after my soul: let them be turned back and him up. brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 26 5 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be the angel of the LORDchase them. 6 clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the themselves against me. angel of the LORDpersecute them. 27 7 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that For without cause have they hid for me their net favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say in a pit, which without cause they have digged continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which for my soul. 8 hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall Psalm 58 rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy men? from him that spoileth him? 2 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. charge things that I knew not. 3 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. of my soul. 4 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with 5 fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, bosom.
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