You kept my eyes from closing;
    I was too troubled to speak.(A)

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Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

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13 When I think my bed will comfort me
    and my couch will ease my complaint,(A)
14 even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify(B) me with visions,(C)
15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(D)
    rather than this body of mine.(E)

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13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

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I am worn out(A) from my groaning.(B)

All night long I flood my bed with weeping(C)
    and drench my couch with tears.(D)

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I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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13 Then they sat on the ground(A) with him for seven days and seven nights.(B) No one said a word to him,(C) because they saw how great his suffering was.

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13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

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Mordecai Honored

That night the king could not sleep;(A) so he ordered the book of the chronicles,(B) the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.

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On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

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It would surely outweigh the sand(A) of the seas—
    no wonder my words have been impetuous.(B)

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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

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