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For they say cruel and deceptive things to me;
they lie to me.[a]
They surround me and say hateful things;[b]
they attack me for no reason.
They repay my love with accusations,[c]
but I continue to pray.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:2 tn Heb “for a mouth of evil and a mouth of deceit against me they open, they speak with me [with] a tongue of falsehood.”
  2. Psalm 109:3 tn Heb “and [with] words of hatred they surround me.”
  3. Psalm 109:4 tn Heb “in place of my love they oppose me.”
  4. Psalm 109:4 tn Heb “and I, prayer.”

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

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