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12 Arise, O Lord! Lift up your hand, O God!
    Do not forget the afflicted.
13 Why should the wicked reject God
    and say in his heart,
    “He will not call me to account”?
14 But you note our troubles and our grief
    so that you may resolve our difficulties.
The helpless entrusts himself to you;
    you are the recourse of the fatherless.

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12 Arise,(A) Lord! Lift up your hand,(B) O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.(C)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(D)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?(E)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(F) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(G)
    you are the helper(H) of the fatherless.

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