13 would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?[a] No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,[b] because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:13 Lit marrying a man
  2. 1:13 Lit daughters, for more bitter to me than you

13 would you wait until they grew up?(A) Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter(B) for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!(C)

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21 Have mercy on me, my friends,(A) have mercy,
for God’s hand(B) has struck me.(C)

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21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(A) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck(B) me.

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20 so that all may see and know,
consider and understand,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,(A)
the Holy One of Israel has created(B) it.

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20 so that people may see and know,(A)
    may consider and understand,(B)
that the hand(C) of the Lord has done this,
    that the Holy One(D) of Israel has created(E) it.

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