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14 He let no one oppress them;
    for their sake he rebuked kings:[a]
15 [b]“Do not touch my anointed ones,
    to my prophets do no harm.”

IV

16 Then he called down a famine on the land,
    destroyed the grain that sustained them.[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 105:14 Kings: Pharaoh and Abimelech of Gerar, cf. Gn 12:17; 20:6–7.
  2. 105:15 My anointed ones…my prophets: the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were “anointed” in the sense of being consecrated and recipients of God’s revelation.
  3. 105:16 The grain that sustained them: lit., every “staff of bread.”