12 (A)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul

32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

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20 (A)Should good be repaid with evil?
    Yet (B)they have dug a pit for my life.
(C)Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.

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20 Those who (A)render me evil for good
    (B)accuse me because I (C)follow after good.

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21 but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” 22 A third time he said to them, “Why? (A)What evil has he done? (B)I have found in him no guilt deserving death. (C)I will therefore punish and release him.” 23 But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

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13 If anyone (A)returns evil for good,
    (B)evil will not depart from his house.

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They encircle me with words of hate,
    and attack me (A)without cause.
In return for my love they (B)accuse me,
    but I (C)give myself to prayer.[a]
So they (D)reward me evil for good,
    and hatred for my love.

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  1. Psalm 109:4 Hebrew but I am prayer

13 And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and (A)have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, (B)to lie in wait, as at this day?” 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over[a] your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

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  1. 1 Samuel 22:14 Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew and has turned aside to

31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.” 32 Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, (A)“Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” 33 (B)But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew (C)that his father was determined to put David to death.

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15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

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And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king (A)sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For (B)he took his life in his hand (C)and he struck down the Philistine, (D)and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against (E)innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

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