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17 You renew your witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you bring fresh troops against me.[a](A)

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  1. 10.17 Cn Compare Gk: Heb toward me; changes and a troop are with me

17 You bring new witnesses against me(A)
    and increase your anger toward me;(B)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.(C)

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And he has[a] shriveled me up,
    which is a witness against me;
my leanness has risen up against me,
    and it testifies to my face.(A)

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  1. 16.8 Heb you have

You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness(A) rises up and testifies against me.(B)

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21 I went away full,
    but the Lord has brought me back empty;
why call me Naomi
    when the Lord has dealt harshly with[a] me
    and the Almighty[b] has brought calamity upon me?”(A)

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  1. 1.21 Or has testified against
  2. 1.21 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty.(A) Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted[a] me;(B) the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

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  1. Ruth 1:21 Or has testified against

12 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the people
who settle like dregs in wine,
    those who say in their hearts,
“The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do harm.”(A)

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12 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
    and punish those who are complacent,(A)
    who are like wine left on its dregs,(B)
who think, ‘The Lord will do nothing,(C)
    either good or bad.’(D)

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11 Moab has been at ease from his youth,
    settled like wine[a] on its dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
therefore his flavor has remained,
    and his aroma is unspoiled.(A)

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  1. 48.11 Heb lacks like wine

11 “Moab has been at rest(A) from youth,
    like wine left on its dregs,(B)
not poured from one jar to another—
    she has not gone into exile.
So she tastes as she did,
    and her aroma is unchanged.

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19 God, who is enthroned from of old, Selah
    will hear and will humble them,
because they do not change
    and do not fear God.(A)

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19 God, who is enthroned from of old,(A)
    who does not change—
he will hear(B) them and humble them,
    because they have no fear of God.(C)

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know then that God has put me in the wrong
    and closed his net around me.(A)
Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;
    I call aloud, but there is no justice.(B)
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.(C)
He has stripped my glory from me
    and taken the crown from my head.(D)
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
    he has uprooted my hope like a tree.(E)
11 He has kindled his wrath against me
    and counts me as his adversary.(F)

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then know that God has wronged me(A)
    and drawn his net(B) around me.(C)

“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;(D)
    though I call for help,(E) there is no justice.(F)
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;(G)
    he has shrouded my paths in darkness.(H)
He has stripped(I) me of my honor(J)
    and removed the crown from my head.(K)
10 He tears me down(L) on every side till I am gone;
    he uproots my hope(M) like a tree.(N)
11 His anger(O) burns against me;
    he counts me among his enemies.(P)

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11 God gives me up to the evil
    and casts me into the hands of the wicked.(A)
12 I was at ease, and he broke me in two;
    he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;(B)
13     his archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys and shows no mercy;
    he pours out my gall on the ground.(C)
14 He bursts upon me again and again;
    he rushes at me like a warrior.(D)
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
    and have laid my strength in the dust.(E)
16 My face is red with weeping,
    and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

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11 God has turned me over to the ungodly
    and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.(A)
12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
    he seized me by the neck and crushed me.(B)
He has made me his target;(C)
13     his archers surround me.(D)
Without pity, he pierces(E) my kidneys
    and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Again and again(F) he bursts upon me;
    he rushes at me like a warrior.(G)

15 “I have sewed sackcloth(H) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(I)
16 My face is red with weeping,(J)
    dark shadows ring my eyes;(K)

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