⁷ The Lord sends poverty and wealth;^(A)
    he humbles and he exalts.^(B)

¹⁵ He saves the needy^(A) from the sword in their mouth;
    he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.^(B)

¹⁶ So the poor^(A) have hope,
    and injustice shuts its mouth.^(B)

¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make them?^(A)
    Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?^(B)

¹⁸ Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’
    and to nobles,^(A) ‘You are wicked,’^(B)

¹⁹ who shows no partiality^(A) to princes
    and does not favor the rich over the poor,^(B)
    for they are all the work of his hands?^(C)

²⁸ They caused the cry of the poor to come before him,
    so that he heard the cry of the needy.^(A)

⁶ He does not keep the wicked alive^(A)
    but gives the afflicted their rights.^(B)

¹⁵ But those who suffer^(A) he delivers in their suffering;^(B)
    he speaks^(C) to them in their affliction.^(D)