World English Bible
Psalms 35:12
“They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.”
Verse in context — Psalms 35
10
All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?
11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
12
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
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