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13 Why do wicked people insult God?
They say to themselves,
    ‘God will not give me any trouble.’
14 Surely, God, you see what is happening.
You see how wicked people bring pain and trouble.
    You decide what to do about it.
The weak person trusts that you will help him.
You take care of children who have no father.
15 Take hold of the arm of the wicked, evil man!
    Break it and take away his strength!
Punish him for the bad things that he has done,
    so that he has to stop.

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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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