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 <div class="label">26</div><div class="cl">Psalm 26</div><div class="d">Of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1Vindicate me, Lord,</div><div class="q2">for I have led a blameless life;</div><div class="q1">I have trusted in the Lord</div><div class="q2">and have not faltered.</div><div class="q1"> 2Test me, Lord, and try me,</div><div class="q2">examine my heart and my mind;</div><div class="q1"> 3for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love</div><div class="q2">and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4I do not sit with the deceitful,</div><div class="q2">nor do I associate with hypocrites.</div><div class="q1"> 5I abhor the assembly of evildoers</div><div class="q2">and refuse to sit with the wicked.</div><div class="q1"> 6I wash my hands in innocence,</div><div class="q2">and go about your altar, Lord,</div><div class="q1"> 7proclaiming aloud your praise</div><div class="q2">and telling of all your wonderful deeds.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8 Lord, I love the house where you live,</div><div class="q2">the place where your glory dwells.</div><div class="q1"> 9Do not take away my soul along with sinners,</div><div class="q2">my life with those who are bloodthirsty,</div><div class="q1"> 10in whose hands are wicked schemes,</div><div class="q2">whose right hands are full of bribes.</div><div class="q1"> 11I lead a blameless life;</div><div class="q2">deliver me and be merciful to me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 12My feet stand on level ground;</div><div class="q2">in the great congregation I will praise the Lord.</div>
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 <div class="p">15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:</div><div class="pm"> 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.</div><div class="pm"> 17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.</div><div class="pm"> 18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.</div><div class="pm"> 19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.</div><div class="p"> 20The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.#28:20 Hebrew me 21The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.</div><div class="p"> 25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.</div><div class="p"> 30You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34The sights you see will drive you mad. 35The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.</div><div class="p"> 36The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.</div><div class="p"> 38You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.</div><div class="p"> 43The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.</div><div class="p"> 45All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.</div><div class="p"> 49The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.</div><div class="p"> 53Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56The most gentle and sensitive woman among you&#8212;so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot&#8212;will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.</div><div class="p"> </div>
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