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16 He would gladly have filled his stomach[a] with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.

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  1. 15.16 Other ancient authorities read filled himself

19 I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.(A)

20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.(B) 21 So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.(C)

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  1. 6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh

Those who feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    cling to ash heaps.

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20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”(A)

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Look on my right hand and see:
    there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
    no one cares for me.(A)

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saying,

“I called to the Lord out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    and you heard my voice.
You cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.(A)
Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
how[a] shall I look again
    upon your holy temple?’(B)
The waters closed in over me;
    the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head(C)
    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
    O Lord my God.(D)
As my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.(E)
Those who worship vain idols
    forsake their true loyalty.(F)

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  1. 2.4 Theodotion: Heb surely

12 Ephraim herds the wind
    and pursues the east wind all day long;
they multiply falsehood and violence;
    they make a treaty with Assyria,
    and oil is carried to Egypt.(A)

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But as for you, come here,
    you children of a sorceress,
    you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.[a](A)

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  1. 57.3 Heb an adulterer and she prostitutes herself

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
    and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.(A)

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22 I was stupid and ignorant;
    I was like a brute beast toward you.(A)

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