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 This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "I would fulfill all that the prophets wrote in the scriptures" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
 
-# forsook him
+# abandoned him
 
-If your language has a word that means they left him when they should have stayed with him, use it here.
+"left him." If your language has a word that means they left him when they should have stayed with him, use it here.