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You handed over their wives as booty
    and sent their daughters into captivity,
and all the spoils you apportioned among your beloved sons
    who had burned with zeal for you
and who in their abhorrence at the defilement of their kinswoman
    called on you for help.
“O God, my God,
    heed also the prayer of a widow.
You were the source of these events
    and those that occurred before and those that followed.
You have planned what is happening now
    and what will occur in the future.
Whatever you devise comes to pass.
The things you decide upon present themselves and proclaim:
    ‘Here we are.’
All your ways are prepared in advance,
    and your judgment is made with foreknowledge.

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