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I am utterly wretched, Yahweh; true to your promise, give me life. (Psalms 119, 107)
How wretched I am, living in Meshech, dwelling in the tents of Kedar! (Psalms 120, 5)
I know that Yahweh will give judgement for the wretched, justice for the needy. (Psalms 140, 12)
make your views heard, pronounce an upright verdict, defend the cause of the poor and the wretched. (Proverbs 31, 9)
Yes, wretched are they who scorn wisdom and discipline: their hope is void, their toil unavailing, their achievements unprofitable; (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 11)
But wretched are they, with their hopes set on dead things, who have given the title of gods to human artefacts, gold or silver, skilfully worked, figures of animals, or useless stone, carved by some hand long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Or there is the slow kind of person, needing help, poor in possessions and rich in poverty; and the Lord turns a favourable eye on him, lifts him out of his wretched condition, (Ecclesiasticus 11, 12)
He sees and recognises how wretched their end is, and so he makes his forgiveness the greater. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 12)
Better death than a wretched life, and everlasting rest than chronic illness. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 17)
On Moab. Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: Wretched Nebo, for it has been ravaged, Kiriathaim has been shamed and taken, shame and distraction on the citadel, (Jeremiah 48, 1)
How wretched I am, a harvester in summer time, like a gleaner at the vintage: not a single cluster to eat, none of those early figs I love! (Micah 7, 1)
