For me, Johnny Cash's version is just more powerful.
Maybe its the context, but to me it really was the last lament of a dying man, and the NIN version didnt have the same intensity and anger.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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