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For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(A)

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  1. 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 Remove your stroke from me;
    I am worn down by the blows[a] of your hand.(A)

11 “You chastise mortals
    in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
    surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(B)

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  1. 39.10 Heb hostility

For your arrows have sunk into me,
    and your hand has come down on me.(A)

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

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

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15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
    you lay me in the dust of death.(A)

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  1. 22.15 Cn: Heb strength

No fear of me need terrify you;
    my pressure will not be heavy on you.(A)

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11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our[a] people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;(A)

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  1. 5.11 Heb me and my

For my days pass away like smoke,
    and my bones burn like a furnace.(A)
My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
    I am too wasted to eat my bread.(B)

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10 Our skin is black as an oven
    from the scorching heat of famine.(A)

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Now their visage is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.(A)

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in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it fades and withers.(A)

For we are consumed by your anger;
    by your wrath we are overwhelmed.

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30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
    and my bones burn with heat.(A)

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21 that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God,
    as[a] one does for a neighbor.(A)

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  1. 16.21 Syr Vg Tg: Heb and

And watch: if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”(A)

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But after they had brought it to Gath,[a] the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic; he struck the inhabitants of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.(A)

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  1. 5.9 Q ms: MT lacks to Gath

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and in its territory.(A) And when the inhabitants of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is heavy on us and on our god Dagon.”

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