A Questions For Abu Loren

   
 ²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

   
 ³They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

   
 ⁴For my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.

   
 ⁵They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

   
 ⁶Set Thou a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

   
 ⁷When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer be counted as sin.

   
 ⁸Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

   
 ⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

   
 ¹⁰Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

   
 ¹¹Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers despoil his labor.

   
 ¹²Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

   
 ¹³Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation to follow let their name be blotted out.

   
 ¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

   
 ¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

   
 ¹⁶because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

   
 ¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

   
 ¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.

   
 ¹⁹Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and as a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

   
 ²⁰Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD and of them that speak evil against my soul.

   
 ²¹But do Thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.

   
 ²²For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

   
 ²³I am gone like the shadow when it declineth; I am tossed up and down as the locust.

   
 ²⁴My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.

   
 ²⁵I have become a reproach also unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.

   
 ²⁶Help me, O LORD my God! O save me according to Thy mercy,

   
 ²⁷that they may know that this is Thy hand--that Thou, LORD, hast done it.

   
 ²⁸Let them curse, but Thou bless; when they arise let them be ashamed, but let Thy servant rejoice.

   
 ²⁹Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

   
 ³⁰I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude.

   
 ³¹For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.