Psalm 35:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³But as for me, when they were sick,
    I wore sackcloth;
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed^[a] on my bosom,
¹⁴    as though I grieved for a friend or a brother;
I went about as one who laments for a mother,
    bowed down and in mourning.

¹⁵But at my stumbling they gathered in glee,
they gathered together against me;
ruffians whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;

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Psalm 35:13 Or My prayer turned back

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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