21 (A)For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am (B)mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.

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21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

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21 Since my people are crushed,(A) I am crushed;
    I mourn,(B) and horror grips me.

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21 For the wound of (A)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    (B)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

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Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(A)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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But now they are blacker(A) than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;(B)
    it has become as dry as a stick.

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(A)Now their face is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.

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10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [a]are drained of color.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6

10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

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10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
    Hearts melt,(A) knees give way,
    bodies tremble, every face grows pale.(B)

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10 (A)Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    (B)Hearts melt and (C)knees tremble;
(D)anguish is in all loins;
    (E)all faces grow pale!

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