26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)

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26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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15 We hoped for peace(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(B)

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15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

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19 Have you rejected Judah completely?(A)
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?(B)
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(C)

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19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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25 What I feared has come upon me;
    what I dreaded(A) has happened to me.(B)
26 I have no peace,(C) no quietness;
    I have no rest,(D) but only turmoil.”(E)

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25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

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12 Those who live in Maroth[a] writhe in pain,
    waiting for relief,(A)
because disaster(B) has come from the Lord,
    even to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:12 Maroth sounds like the Hebrew for bitter.

12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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10 Who among you fears(A) the Lord
    and obeys(B) the word of his servant?(C)
Let the one who walks in the dark,
    who has no light,(D)
trust(E) in the name of the Lord
    and rely on their God.

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10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

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11 Light shines[a](A) on the righteous(B)
    and joy on the upright in heart.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 97:11 One Hebrew manuscript and ancient versions (see also 112:4); most Hebrew manuscripts Light is sown

11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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18 Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.(B)

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18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

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18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.(A)

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18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

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17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,(A)
    by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;(A)
    he has shrouded my paths in darkness.(B)

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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness(A)
    and is banished(B) from the world.(C)

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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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The light in his tent(A) becomes dark;(B)
    the lamp beside him goes out.(C)

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The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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