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12 They paid me back evil for good;
    my soul mourns.
13 But when they were sick,
    I wore sackcloth, humbled myself with fasting,
        and prayed from my heart repeatedly for them.[a]
14 I paced about as for my friend or my brother,
    and fell down mourning as one weeps for one’s mother.

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  1. Psalm 35:13 The Heb. lacks for them

12 They repay me evil for good(A)
    and leave me like one bereaved.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(B)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(C)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14     I went about mourning(D)
    as though for my friend or brother.
I bowed my head in grief
    as though weeping for my mother.

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