King James Version KJV
New International Version NIV
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
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Sing to the LORD! Give praise to the LORD! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
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Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, “A child is born to you—a son!”
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
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May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
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For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
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