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Psalms 108
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1A Song, a Psalm of David. Prepared is my heart, O God, I sing, yea, I sing praise, also my honour.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2Awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the dawn.
2O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
3I thank Thee among peoples, O Jehovah, And I praise Thee among the nations.
3They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
4For great above the heavens <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.
4Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, And above all the earth Thy honour.
5And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6That Thy beloved ones may be delivered, Save <FI>with<Fi> Thy right hand, and answer us.
6Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult, I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,
7When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8Mine <FI>is<Fi> Gilead, mine <FI>is<Fi> Manasseh, And Ephraim <FI>is<Fi> the strength of my head, Judah <FI>is<Fi> my lawgiver,
8May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9Moab <FI>is<Fi> a pot for my washing, Upon Edom I cast my shoe, Over Philistia I shout habitually.
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Who doth bring me in to the fenced city? Who hath led me unto Edom?
10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11Hast not Thou, O God, cast us off? And Thou goest not out, O God, with our hosts!
11May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13In God we do mightily, And He doth tread down our adversaries!
13May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
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14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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15May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
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17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
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18And 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.
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19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
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20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
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21But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
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23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
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24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
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25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.
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27And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
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28They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
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29Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.