All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord, a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food. His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death. If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,
But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer. Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord: that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the Lord looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,
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