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10 When I humbled my soul with fasting,[a]
    they insulted me for doing so.(A)

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  1. 69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting

33 “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’;(A) 34 the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’(B)

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24 My knees are weak through fasting;
    my body has become gaunt.(A)
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.(B)

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All day long my enemies taunt me;
    those who deride me use my name for a curse.(A)
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
    and mingle tears with my drink,(B)

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13 But as for me, when they were sick,
    I wore sackcloth;
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed[a] on my bosom,(A)

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  1. 35.13 Or My prayer turned back