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11 We all growl like bears;
    like doves we moan mournfully.
We wait for justice, but there is none;
    for salvation, but it is far from us.(A)

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14 Like a swallow or a crane[a] I clamor;
    I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
    O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!(A)

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  1. 38.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain

16 If any survivors escape,
    they shall be found on the mountains
    like doves of the valleys,
all of them moaning over their iniquity.(A)

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14 They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but they wail upon their beds;
they gash themselves for grain and wine;
    they rebel against me.(A)

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[a]O that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
so that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of the daughter of my people!(A)

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  1. 9.1 8.23 in Heb

15 We look for peace but find no good,
    for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.(A)

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Therefore justice is far from us,
    and deliverance does not reach us;
we wait for light, but there is only darkness;
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.(A)

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20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an antelope in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.(A)

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155 Salvation is far from the wicked,
    for they do not seek your statutes.(A)

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Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him,
    that his glory may dwell in our land.(A)

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I am utterly spent and crushed;
    I groan because of the tumult of my heart.(A)

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While I kept silent, my body wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.(A)
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(B)

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  1. 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

28 I go about in sunless gloom;
    I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(A)
29 I am a brother of jackals
    and a companion of ostriches.(B)

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