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Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
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Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me—
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You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
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Psalm 52
For the director of music. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”
Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
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You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
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Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.
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Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.
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Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.
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Deliver me from evildoers and save me from those who are after my blood.
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Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.
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They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it?”
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Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel.
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From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits.
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that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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For surely your enemies, Lord, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
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They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
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Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
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Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
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The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
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Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord.
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They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
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Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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May this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
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I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.
