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11 There are witnesses[a] trying to harm me.
    They ask me questions that I know nothing about.
12 They pay me back evil for the good I have done.
    They make me so very sad.
13 When they were sick, I was sad and wore sackcloth.
    I went without eating to show my sorrow.
    (May my prayers for them not be answered!)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:11 witnesses People who tell what they have seen or heard. Here, these people were probably telling lies.

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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