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         <div class="label">109</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 109</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, whom I praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">do not remain silent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for people who are wicked and deceitful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">have opened their mouths against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">they have spoken against me with lying tongues.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With words of hatred they surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">they attack me without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In return for my friendship they accuse me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">but I am a man of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They repay me evil for good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">and hatred for my friendship.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">let an accuser stand at his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he is tried, let him be found guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">and may his prayers condemn him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May his days be few;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">may another take his place of leadership.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May his children be fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">and his wife a widow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May his children be wandering beggars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">may they be driven</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">109:10 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">sought</span></span></span><span class="content"> from their ruined homes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May a creditor seize all he has;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May no one extend kindness to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">or take pity on his fatherless children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May his descendants be cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">their names blotted out from the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May their sins always remain before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">that he may blot out their name from the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For he never thought of doing a kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">but hounded to death the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">and the needy and the brokenhearted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He loved to pronounce a curse&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it come back on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">He found no pleasure in blessing&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it be far from him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He wore cursing as his garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">it entered into his body like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">into his bones like oil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">like a belt tied forever around him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">May this be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s payment to my accusers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">to those who speak evil of me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">help me for your name&#8217;s sake;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For I am poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">and my heart is wounded within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I fade away like an evening shadow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">I am shaken off like a locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My knees give way from fasting;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">my body is thin and gaunt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I am an object of scorn to my accusers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">when they see me, they shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Help me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">save me according to your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Let them know that it is your hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">that you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have done it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">While they curse, may you bless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">may those who attack me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">but may your servant rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May my accusers be clothed with disgrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">With my mouth I will greatly extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he stands at the right hand of the needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="content">to save their lives from those who would condemn them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">110</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 110</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.110.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to my lord:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">110:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Lord</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.110.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.110.1"><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.110.1"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.110.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.110.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.110.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Rule in the midst of your enemies!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.110.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your troops will be willing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="content">on your day of battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="content">Arrayed in holy splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="content">your young men will come to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="content">like dew from the morning&#8217;s womb.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">110:3 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.110.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.110.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.110.4"><span class="content">and will not change his mind:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.110.4"><span class="content">&#8220;You are a priest forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.110.4"><span class="content">in the order of Melchizedek.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.110.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.110.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord is at your right hand</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">110:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My lord is at your right hand, <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.110.5"><span class="content">he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.110.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.110.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.110.6"><span class="content">and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.110.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.110.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He will drink from a brook along the way,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">110:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.110.7"><span class="content">and so he will lift his head high.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">111</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 111</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the lines of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">111:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">I will extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with all my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">in the council of the upright and in the assembly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Great are the works of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="content">they are pondered by all who delight in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Glorious and majestic are his deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="content">and his righteousness endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He has caused his wonders to be remembered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is gracious and compassionate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He provides food for those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="content">he remembers his covenant forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He has shown his people the power of his works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="content">giving them the lands of other nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The works of his hands are faithful and just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="content">all his precepts are trustworthy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are established for ever and ever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="content">enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He provided redemption for his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">he ordained his covenant forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">holy and awesome is his name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the beginning of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="content">all who follow his precepts have good understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="content">To him belongs eternal praise.</span></span></div>
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