For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
    through my (B)groaning all day long.

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When I kept silent,(A)
    my bones wasted away(B)
    through my groaning(C) all day long.

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I am feeble and crushed;
    I (A)groan because of the tumult of my heart.

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I am feeble and utterly crushed;(A)
    I groan(B) in anguish of heart.(C)

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There is (A)no soundness in my flesh
    because of your indignation;
there is no health in my (B)bones
    because of my sin.

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Because of your wrath there is no health(A) in my body;
    there is no soundness in my bones(B) because of my sin.

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though (A)I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;

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Even when I call out or cry for help,(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.(B)

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Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

22 (A)My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so (B)far from saving me, from the words of my (C)groaning?

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Psalm 22[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?(A)
    Why are you so far(B) from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.

14 (A)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but (B)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.

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14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts(A)
    but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,[a] appealing to their gods
    for grain and new wine,(B)
    but they turn away from me.(C)

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  1. Hosea 7:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts They gather together

13 Whoever (A)conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
    but he who (B)confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

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13 Whoever conceals their sins(A) does not prosper,
    but the one who confesses(B) and renounces them finds mercy.(C)

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30 My (A)skin turns black and falls from me,
    and my (B)bones burn with heat.

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30 My skin grows black(A) and peels;(B)
    my body burns with fever.(C)

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Let me hear joy and gladness;
    (A)let the bones (B)that you have broken rejoice.

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Let me hear joy and gladness;(A)
    let the bones(B) you have crushed rejoice.

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15 So he went and hired himself out to[a] one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he (A)was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

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  1. Luke 15:15 Greek joined himself to

15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.(A) 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

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He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    (A)he has broken my bones;

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He has made my skin and my flesh grow old(A)
    and has broken my bones.(B)

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(A)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(B)she dwells now among the nations,
    (C)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

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  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes

After affliction and harsh labor,
    Judah has gone into exile.(A)
She dwells among the nations;
    she finds no resting place.(B)
All who pursue her have overtaken her(C)
    in the midst of her distress.

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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
    and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(A) me like an unruly calf,(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,(D)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(E) my breast.
I was ashamed(F) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(G)

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