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    (to Jerusalem) Give us your best advice and do what is right.
        When the day is at its fiercest, hide us in your cool shade.
    Shield the trammeled and abused.
        Keep your mouth shut when our enemy comes looking, seeking us out.
    Let these refugees of Moab come in and stay.
    Protect these tempest-tossed; be their hiding place,
        a shelter safe from the destroyer.

See, when the one who has squeezed and oppressed you is gone
    and the forces of crushing violence wane in the land,
Then God will establish a royal throne, in loyal love—
    the One who rules there will be utterly reliable,
With absolute integrity under the auspices of David.
    With a passion for justice, He will be quick to decide and do what is right.

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