You, however, smear me with lies;(A)
    you are worthless physicians,(B) all of you!(C)

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But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

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“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,(A) all of you!(B)

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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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34 “So how can you console me(A) with your nonsense?
    Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”(B)

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34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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Psalm 22[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?(A)
    Why are you so far(B) from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.

22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.

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11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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18 Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.(B)

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18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

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