15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength[a] in the dust.(A)

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  1. 16:15 Lit horn

15 “I have sewed sackcloth(A) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(B)

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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground(A)
and leave my honor in the dust.(B)Selah

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then let my enemy pursue and overtake(A) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground(B)
    and make me sleep in the dust.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

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10 “I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,(A)
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(B)

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10 who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
    but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(A)

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10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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