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Psalm 35:14

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My prayers were like lead in my gut,

like I’d lost my best friend, my brother.

I paced, distraught as a motherless child,

hunched and heavyhearted.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;

as one who laments his mother,

I bowed down in mourning.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I went about mourning

as though for my friend or brother.

I bowed my head in grief

as though weeping for my mother.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I went about mourning as if for my friend or brother;

I was bowed down with grief,

like one mourning for a mother.

NLTNew Living Translation

I was sad, as though they were my friends or family,

as if I were grieving for my own mother.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I behaved as though he were a friend or as a brother to me.

As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning.

KJV 1900King James Version

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:

I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.