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“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.