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13 Why do the wicked reject God?
    Why do they think to themselves
        that you won’t find out?
14 But you do see!
    You do see troublemaking and grief,
    and you do something about it!
The helpless leave it all to you.
    You are the orphan’s helper.

15 Break the arms of those
    who are wicked and evil.
Seek out their wickedness
    until there’s no more to find.

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13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(A)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?(B)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(C) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(D)
    you are the helper(E) of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man;(F)
    call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
    that would not otherwise be found out.

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