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know then that God has put me in the wrong
    and closed his net around me.(A)

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For they are thrust into a net by their own feet,
    and they walk into a pitfall.(A)
A trap seizes them by the heel;
    a snare lays hold of them.(B)
10 A rope is hid for them in the ground,
    a trap for them in the path.(C)

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12 As they go, I will cast my net over them;
    I will bring them down like birds of the air;
    I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly.[a](A)

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  1. 7.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Thus says the Lord God:
    In an assembly of many peoples
    I will throw my net over you,
    and I[a] will haul you up in my dragnet.(A)

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  1. 32.3 Gk Vg: Heb they

13 I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.(A)

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12 Is it nothing to you,[a] all you who pass by?
    Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which the Lord inflicted
    on the day of his fierce anger.(A)

13 From on high he sent fire;
    it went deep into my bones;
he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
he has left me stunned,
    faint all day long.(B)

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  1. 1.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 For you, O God, have tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.(A)
11 You brought us into the net;
    you laid burdens on our backs;(B)
12 you let people ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.[a](C)

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  1. 66.12 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb to a saturation

Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
    and have not gone out with our armies.(A)
10 You made us turn back from the foe,
    and our enemies have gotten spoil.(B)
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
    and have scattered us among the nations.(C)
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.(D)

13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and scorn of those around us.(E)
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
    a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.(F)

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  1. 44.14 Heb a shaking of the head

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
    and the Almighty,[a] who has made my soul bitter,(A)

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  1. 27.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

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)

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20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
    Why have you made me your target?
    Why have I become a burden to you?(A)

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