you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

She begins her work vigorously, and she strengthens her arms.

In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.

I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!”

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

for evil men will lose their power, but the Lord sustains the godly.

You delivered your people by your strength – the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)

My hand will support him, and my arm will strengthen him.

with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loyal love endures,

Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the Lord’s power revealed through him?