11 (A)Malicious[a] witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I do not know.
12 (B)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[b]
13 But I, (C)when they were sick—
    I (D)wore sackcloth;
    I (E)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (F)with head bowed[c] on my chest.
14     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I (G)bowed down in mourning.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:11 Or Violent
  2. Psalm 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul
  3. Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back

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