The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

If the Lord had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.

Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord – so how can anyone understand his own way?

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.

In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.

The Elamites picked up the quiver, and came with chariots and horsemen; the men of Kir prepared the shield.

No resident of Zion will say, “I am ill”; the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.

(6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;

But Jesus said, “Enough of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.