20 Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,
    or like vinegar poured on a wound,
    is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.(A)

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    a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

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15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.(A) 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?(B)

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Is it not to share your food with the hungry(A)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter(B)
when you see the naked, to clothe(C) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?(D)

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15 And the prayer offered in faith(A) will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.

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18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating(A) and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.(B)

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26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke(A) to the eyes,
    so are sluggards to those who send them.(B)

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for there our captors(A) asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded(B) songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”(C)

How can we sing the songs of the Lord(D)
    while in a foreign land?

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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
    they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.(A)
They are drenched(B) by mountain rains
    and hug(C) the rocks for lack of shelter.(D)
The fatherless(E) child is snatched(F) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(G) for a debt.(H)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(I)
    they carry the sheaves,(J) but still go hungry.

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12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(A) in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset(B) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.(C) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.(D)

14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.(E) 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor(F) and are counting on it.(G) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.(H)

16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.(I)

17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless(J) of justice,(K) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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