12 Rise up, Lord God! Lift up your hand.(A)
Do not forget the oppressed.(B)
13 Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”(C)
14 But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.(D)
The helpless one entrusts himself to you;
you are a helper of the fatherless.(E)

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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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