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12 Why did my mother’s knees receive me?
    Why did my mother’s breasts feed me?
13 If they had not been there, I would be lying dead in peace.
    I would be asleep and at rest.
14 I would be asleep with kings and wise men of the earth.
    They built places for themselves that are now ruined.

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12 Why were there knees to receive me(A)
    and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down(B) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(C)
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,(D)
    who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,(E)

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