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Wicked and deceitful men
    have opened their mouths against me;[a]
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
They confront me with words of hatred
    and assail me without cause.
In return for my love they denounce me
    even as I offer up prayers for them.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:2 Opened their mouths against me: see note on Ps 5:10.
  2. Psalm 109:4 I offer up prayers for them: the psalmist is not a man of evil and slander; he even prays for his foes, as in Ps 35:13f.