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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.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in 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.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

The case before us illustrates better than most that the judicial power is often difficult in its exercise.

Furthermore, Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities, and legislators seem to be more anxious to secure it than Justice even.

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.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

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.’