12 (A)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[a]
13 But I, (B)when they were sick—
    I (C)wore sackcloth;
    I (D)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (E)with head bowed[b] on my chest.
14     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I (F)bowed down in mourning.

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Footnotes

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

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