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

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When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

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

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I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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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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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

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

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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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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.

22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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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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Footnotes

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

14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

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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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13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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

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30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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

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Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

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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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15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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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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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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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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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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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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18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

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