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“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
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I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
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Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
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For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
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But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
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Furthermore, Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities, and legislators seem to be more anxious to secure it than Justice even.
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He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
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Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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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.’
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“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
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Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.
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The guaranties of civil liberty are but guaranties of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them.
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Deep-rooted Customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the Duty of every one to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.
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Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.
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The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.
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The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.
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One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings