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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 35, Verse 14

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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
King James Version
I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.
American Standard Version
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
New English Translation
I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
World English Bible
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:
16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.
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Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it].
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[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
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Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
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Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.