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Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

a prayer of/ an afflicted person if he grows faint and/ to/ before Yahweh he pours out complaint/ his

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.