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I have become a stranger to my kindred,
    an alien to my mother’s children.(A)

It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;
    the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.(B)
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting,[a]
    they insulted me for doing so.(C)

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  1. 69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting

14 rescue me
    from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from the deep waters.(A)

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17 Do not hide your face from your servant,
    for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.(A)

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33 For the Lord hears the needy
    and does not despise his own who are in bonds.(A)

34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
    the seas and everything that moves in them.(B)
35 For God will save Zion
    and rebuild the cities of Judah,
and his servants shall live[a] there and possess it;(C)

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  1. 69.35 Syr: Heb and they shall live