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13 There is no one to help you
    or to bind up your injury.
    No medicine can heal you.
14 All your lovers—your allies—have left you
    and do not care about you anymore.
I have wounded you cruelly,
    as though I were your enemy.
For your sins are many,
    and your guilt is great.
15 Why do you protest your punishment—
    this wound that has no cure?
I have had to punish you
    because your sins are many
    and your guilt is great.

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing(B) for you.
14 All your allies(C) have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy(D) would
    and punished you as would the cruel,(E)
because your guilt is so great
    and your sins(F) so many.
15 Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?(G)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.(H)

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