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He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?(A)

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His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”(A)

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Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?(A)

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Is not your wickedness great?
    There is no end to your iniquities.(A)
For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason
    and stripped the naked of their clothing.(B)
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have withheld bread from the hungry.(C)
The powerful possess the land,
    and the favored live in it.
You have sent widows away empty-handed,
    and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.[a](D)
10 Therefore snares are around you,
    and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11 or darkness so that you cannot see;
    a flood of water covers you.(E)

12 “Is not God high in the heavens?
    See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13 Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through the deep darkness?(F)
14 Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see,
    and he walks on the dome of heaven.’
15 Will you keep to the old way
    that the wicked have trod?
16 They were snatched away before their time;
    their foundation was washed away by a flood.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed