For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
    through my (B)groaning 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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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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though (A)I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;

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

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

  1. Luke 15:15 Greek joined himself to

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

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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

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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11 We all growl like bears;
    (A)we moan and moan like doves;
(B)we hope for justice, but there is none;
    for salvation, but it is far from us.

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20 (A)Your sons have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an (B)antelope (C)in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.

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Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am (A)in distress;
    (B)my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and (C)my bones waste away.

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Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
    (A)heal me, O Lord, (B)for my bones are troubled.

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17 (A)The night (B)racks my bones,
    and the pain that (C)gnaws me takes no rest.

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24 For my sighing comes (A)instead of[a] my bread,
    and my (B)groanings are poured out like water.

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  1. Job 3:24 Or like; Hebrew before

27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and (A)she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

Nathan Rebukes David

12 And the Lord sent (B)Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, (C)“There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,[a] and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, (D)“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb (E)fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”

Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, (F)‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. (G)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (H)to do what is evil in his sight? (I)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (J)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, (K)but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”

Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:3 Hebrew bosom; also verse 8

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool[a] of the day, and the man and his wife (A)hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”[b] 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, (B)because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, (C)“The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, (D)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
    cursed are you above all livestock
    and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
    and (E)dust you shall eat
    all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[c] and (F)her offspring;
(G)he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
    (H)in pain you shall bring forth children.
(I)Your desire shall be contrary to[d] your husband,
    but he shall (J)rule over you.”

17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
(K)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
(L)cursed is the ground because of you;
    (M)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(N)for you are dust,
    and (O)to dust you shall return.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:8 Hebrew wind
  2. Genesis 3:9 In Hebrew you is singular in verses 9 and 11
  3. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis
  4. Genesis 3:16 Or shall be toward (see 4:7)

17 Because of the iniquity of his (A)unjust gain I was angry,
    I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
    but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

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For my days (A)pass away like smoke,
    and my (B)bones burn like a furnace.
My heart is (C)struck down like grass and (D)has withered;
    I (E)forget to eat my bread.
Because of my loud groaning
    my (F)bones cling to my flesh.

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12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, (A)who had stolen them from the public square of (B)Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. 13 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 14 And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in (C)Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that (D)God responded to the plea for the land.

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13 And they took their bones (A)and buried them under (B)the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and (C)fasted seven days.

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