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12 Lord All-Powerful, you test good people.
    You look deeply into a person’s mind.
I told you my arguments against these people.
    So let me see you give them the punishment they deserve.
13 Sing to the Lord!
    Praise the Lord!
He saves the lives of the poor!
    He saves them from the wicked!

Jeremiah’s Sixth Complaint

14 Curse the day that I was born!
    Don’t bless the day my mother had me.

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12 Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous
    and probe the heart and mind,(A)
let me see your vengeance(B) on them,
    for to you I have committed(C) my cause.

13 Sing(D) to the Lord!
    Give praise to the Lord!
He rescues(E) the life of the needy
    from the hands of the wicked.(F)

14 Cursed be the day I was born!(G)
    May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

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