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17 Some were sick[a] through their sinful ways
    and because of their iniquities endured affliction;(A)

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  1. 107.17 Cn: Heb fools

39 Why should any who draw breath complain
    about the punishment of their sins?(A)

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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?(A)

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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
    and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
            says the Lord God of hosts.(A)

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See, it is written before me:
    I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps(A)
    their[a] iniquities and their[b] ancestors’ iniquities together,
            says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
    and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
    full payment for their actions.(B)

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  1. 65.7 Gk Syr: Heb your
  2. 65.7 Gk Syr: Heb your

17 Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry;
    I struck them; I hid and was angry,
    but they kept turning back to their own ways.(A)
18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
    I will lead them and repay them with comfort,

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and I saw among the simple ones,
    I observed among the youths,
    a young man without sense,(A)

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The dullard cannot know;
    the stupid cannot understand this:

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Psalm 38

A Penitent Sufferer’s Plea for Healing

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
    or discipline me in your wrath.(A)
For your arrows have sunk into me,
    and your hand has come down on me.(B)

There is no soundness in my flesh
    because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
    because of my sin.(C)
For my iniquities have gone over my head;
    they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.(D)

My wounds grow foul and fester
    because of my foolishness;(E)
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
    all day long I go around mourning.(F)
For my loins are filled with burning,
    and there is no soundness in my flesh.(G)
I am utterly spent and crushed;
    I groan because of the tumult of my heart.(H)

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Psalm 14

Denunciation of Godlessness

To the leader. Of David.

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds;
    there is no one who does good.(A)

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The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”(A) Then the Lord sent poisonous[a] serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.(B) The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.(C) And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous[b] serpent, and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.(D)

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  1. 21.6 Or fiery
  2. 21.8 Or fiery

33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.(A) 34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah,[a] because there they buried the people who had the craving.(B)

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  1. 11.34 That is, graves of craving

22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]

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  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 When the cloud went away from over the tent, Miriam’s skin had become diseased, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she was diseased.(A) 11 Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us[a] for a sin that we have so foolishly committed.(B) 12 Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.” 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, “O God, please heal her.”

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  1. 12.11 Heb do not lay sin upon us