17 All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten(A) you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.
18 Our hearts had not turned(B) back;
    our feet had not strayed from your path.
19 But you crushed(C) us and made us a haunt for jackals;(D)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.(E)

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17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?(A) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?(B) 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a](C)

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors(D) through him who loved us.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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so that no one would be unsettled by these trials.(A) For you know quite well that we are destined for them.(B)

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That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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