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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 people who are wicked and deceitful(A)
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.(B)
With words of hatred(C) they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.(D)
In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.(E)

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