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I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.
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He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.” He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”
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But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
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defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
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Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord.
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It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
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Psalm 23
A psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
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Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
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Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing.
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Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about.
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You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.
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You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
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Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house.
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Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
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for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them.
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Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.
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But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to dread. God scattered the bones of those who attacked you; you put them to shame, for God despised them.
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Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
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A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
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Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
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Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.’
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They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
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The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
