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12 Why was I laid on my mother’s lap?
    Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
13 Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace.
    I would be asleep and at rest.
14 I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers,
    whose great buildings now lie in ruins.

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12 Why were there knees to receive me(A)
    and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down(B) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(C)
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,(D)
    who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,(E)

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