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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

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

20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,
    and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.(A)

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24 My knees are weak through fasting;
    my body has become gaunt.(A)

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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

27 so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, so that she may be holy and without blemish.(A)

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16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,
    of glory to the Righteous One.

But I say, “I pine away;
    I pine away. Woe is me!
For the treacherous deal treacherously;
    the treacherous deal very treacherously.”(A)

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16 Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
    will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled
    like the burning of fire.(A)

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15 he gave them what they asked
    but sent a wasting disease among them.(A)

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