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34 Your hands were not bound;
    your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
    you have fallen.”

And all the people wept over him again.

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As robbers lie in wait[a] for someone,
    so the priests are banded together;[b]
they murder on the road to Shechem;
    they commit a monstrous crime.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.9 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.9 Syr: Heb are a company

10 Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
    prisoners in misery and in irons,(A)
11 for they had rebelled against the words of God
    and spurned the counsel of the Most High.(B)

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14 The murderer rises at dusk
    to kill the poor and needy
    and in the night is like a thief.(A)

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12 They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for his son Jonathan and for the army of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had been struck down[a] by the sword.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 Q ms Gk: Heb had fallen

21 So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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