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Bible prayer against enemies catholic1/14/2024 ![]() O see, in guilt was I born, a sinner was I conceived. That you may be justified when you give sentence and be without reproach when you judge. Against you, you alone, have I sinned what is evil in your sight I have done. My offenses truly I know them my sin is always before me. O wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. O Lord, do not forsake me! My God, do not stay afar off! Make haste and come to my help, O Lord, my God, my savior! Psalm 51 They repay me evil for good and attack me for seeking what is right. My wanton enemies are numberless and my lying foes are many. I confess that I am guilty and my sin fills me with dismay. I pray: "Do not let them mock me, those who triumph if my foot should slip." For I am on the point of falling and my pain is always before me. I count on you, O Lord: it is you, Lord God, who will answer. ![]() I am like a man who hears nothing in whose mouth is no defense. But I am like the deaf who cannot hear, like the dumb unable to speak. Those who plot against my life lay snares those who seek my ruin speak of harm, planning treachery all the day long. My friends avoid me like a leper those closest to me stand afar off. My heart throbs, my strength is spent the very light has gone from my eyes. O Lord, you know all my longing: my groans are not hidden from you. Spent and utterly crushed, I cry aloud in anguish of heart. All my frame burns with fever all my body is sick. My wounds are foul and festering, the result of my own folly. My guilt towers higher than my head it is a weight too heavy to bear. Through your anger all my body is sick: through my sin, there is no health in my limbs. ![]() Your arrows have sunk deep in me your hand has come down upon me. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger do not punish me, Lord in your rage. Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, exult, you just! a come, ring out your joy, all you upright of heart. Many sorrows has the wicked but he who trusts in the Lord, loving mercy surrounds him. Be not like the horse and mule, unintelligent, needing bridle and bit, else they will not approach you. I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go I will give you counsel with my eye upon you. You surround me with cries of deliverance. ![]() You are my hiding place, a Lord you save me from distress. The floods of water may reach high but him they shall not reach. So let every good man pray to you in the time of need. I said: "I will confess my offense to the Lord." And you, Lord, have forgiven the guilt of my sin. But now I have acknowledged my sins my guilt I did not hide. Indeed, my strength was dried up as by the summer's heal. I groaned all the day long, for night and day your hand was heavy upon me. I kept it secret and my frame was wasted. a happy the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no guile. Happy the man whose offense is forgiven, whose sin is remitted. All my foes will retire in confusion, foiled and suddenly confounded. The Lord has heard my plea the Lord will accept my prayer. Leave me, all you who do evil for the Lord has heard my weeping. My eye wastes away from grief I have grown old surrounded by my foes. Save me in your merciful love, for in death no one remembers you from the grave, who can give you praise? I am exhausted with my groaning every night I drench my pillow with tears. But you, a Lord, how long? Return, Lord, rescue my soul. Have mercy on me, Lord, I have no strength Lord, heal me, my body is racked my soul is racked with pain. Lord, do not reprove me in your anger: punish me not in your rage.
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