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May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
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May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven from their ruined homes.
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May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
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May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.
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May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.
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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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May their sins always remain before the Lord,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy and the brokenhearted.
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He loved to pronounce a curse—
may it come on him;
he found no pleasure in blessing—
may it be far from him.
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He wore cursing as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,
into his bones like oil.
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May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.
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May this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil of me.