⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs^(A)
    I am he,^(B) I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain^(C) you and I will rescue you.

¹⁸ The Lord is close^(A) to the brokenhearted^(B)
    and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

³ Defend the weak and the fatherless;^(A)
    uphold the cause of the poor^(B) and the oppressed.
⁴ Rescue the weak and the needy;
    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.