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17 Hear thou my prayer, and be thou merciful to the lot, and the part of thine heritage; and turn thou our mourning into joy, (so) that we living praise thy name, Lord; and close thou not the mouths of men praising thee. [Hear my prayer, and merciful be thou to the lot, and the little cord of thine heritage; and turn our wailing into joy, that living we praise thy name, Lord; and not close thou the mouths of men praising thee.]

18 And all Israel with like mind and beseeching cried to the Lord, for cause that certain death nighed to them (or because that certain death approached to them). [And all Israel (with) like mind and beseeching cried to the Lord, for thy that to them should hang in certain death.]

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