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10 When I humbled my soul with fasting,[a]
    they insulted me for doing so.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting

10 When I weep and fast,(A)
    I must endure scorn;

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33 “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’;(A) 34 the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’(B)

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33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine,(A) and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’(B)

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24 My knees are weak through fasting;
    my body has become gaunt.(A)
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.(B)

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24 My knees give(A) way from fasting;(B)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(C)
25 I am an object of scorn(D) to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.(E)

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All day long my enemies taunt me;
    those who deride me use my name for a curse.(A)
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
    and mingle tears with my drink,(B)

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All day long my enemies(A) taunt me;(B)
    those who rail against me use my name as a curse.(C)
For I eat ashes(D) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears(E)

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13 But as for me, when they were sick,
    I wore sackcloth;
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed[a] on my bosom,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 35.13 Or My prayer turned back

13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(A)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(B)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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