Verse 5
Psalms 109:5
English Revised Version
5
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֘שִׂ֤ימוּ עָלַ֣/י רָ֭עָה תַּ֣חַת טוֹבָ֑ה וְ֝/שִׂנְאָ֗ה תַּ֣חַת אַהֲבָתִֽ/י
English Translation
And they set evil against me instead of good, and hatred instead of love.
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Chapter 109 Context
1
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God (Elohim) of my praise;
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: they have spoken un...
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
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When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him; neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless...
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Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be bl...
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken...
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Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from h...
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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like wat...
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wherewith he covereth himself, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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This is the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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21
But deal thou with me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou...
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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23
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 am become also a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.
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Help me, O LORD my God (Elohim); O save me according to thy mercy:
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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, they shall be ashamed, but thy servant shall rejoic...
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonour, and let them cover themselves with their own shame a...
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I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.
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