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15 May their guilt be continually before the Lord,
    and may he banish all remembrance of them from the earth.
16 [a]“For he never thought of showing mercy;
    rather, he hounded to death
    the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
17 He loved to level curses[b] at others;
    may they recoil on him.
He took no pleasure in blessing;
    may no blessing be his.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:16 No other place expresses with such vivid intensity the terrible logic of judgment whereby what humans choose, they ultimately receive to the full.
  2. Psalm 109:17 Curses: see note on Ps 10:7.