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False witnesses accuse the person who once cared for them.
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Psalms 35:11-14

when they were sick, I wore sackcloth

Psalm 35: Take hold of shield and large shield · Psalms 35

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11Malicious witnesses rise up; they question me about things I do not know.

12They repay me evil for good, leaving me bereft.

13But as for me, when they were sick, I wore sackcloth; I humbled myself by fasting, and my prayer returned to my own bosom.

14I went about as if for a friend or brother; I bowed down in gloom, like one mourning for a mother.

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