24 For my sighing comes before [a]I eat,
And my groanings pour out like water.

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  1. Job 3:24 Lit. my bread

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,

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For I eat ashes(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears(B)

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(A)You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in great measure.

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You have fed them with the bread of tears;(A)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.(B)

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(A)My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
(B)“Where is your God?”

When I remember these things,
(C)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
(D)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

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My tears(A) have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(B)
These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(C)
how I used to go to the house of God(D)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(E) and praise(F)
    among the festive throng.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

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I am feeble and utterly crushed;(A)
    I groan(B) in anguish of heart.(C)

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Even (A)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.

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Even when I call out or cry for help,(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.(B)

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11 We all growl like bears,
And (A)moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.

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11 We all growl like bears;
    we moan mournfully like doves.(A)
We look for justice, but find none;
    for deliverance, but it is far away.

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When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.

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When I kept silent,(A)
    my bones wasted away(B)
    through my groaning(C) all day long.

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The Suffering, Praise, and Posterity of the Messiah

To the Chief Musician. Set to [a]“The Deer of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David.

22 My (A)God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?
O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night season, and am not silent.

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  1. Psalm 22:1 Heb. Aijeleth Hashahar

Psalm 22[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?(A)
    Why are you so far(B) from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?(C)
My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,(D)
    by night,(E) but I find no rest.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.
  2. Psalm 22:2 Or night, and am not silent

20 (A)So that his life abhors (B)bread,
And his soul [a]succulent food.

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  1. Job 33:20 desirable

20 so that their body finds food(A) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(B)

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19 How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?

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19 Will you never look away from me,(A)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(B)

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My soul refuses to touch them;
They are as loathsome food to me.

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I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(A)

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