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11 Malicious witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I know not.
12 They requite me evil for good;
    my soul is forlorn.
13 But I, when they were sick—
    I wore sackcloth,
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed[a] on my bosom,

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  1. Psalm 35:13 Or My prayer turned back

11 Ruthless witnesses(A) come forward;
    they question me on things I know nothing about.
12 They repay me evil for good(B)
    and leave me like one bereaved.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(C)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(D)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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