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PSALMS
- In the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
- His eyes are privily set against the poor.
- He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:
- He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
- He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
- That the poor may fall by his strong ones.
- He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:
- He hideth his face; he will never see it.
- Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand:
- Forget not the humble.
- Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?
- He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
- Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite,
- To requite it with thy hand:
- The poor committeth himself unto thee;
- Thou art the helper of the fatherless.
- Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man
- Seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
- The Lord is King for ever and ever:
- The heathen are perished out of his land.
- Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:
- Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
- To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
- That the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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