³ Think how you have instructed many,^(A)
    how you have strengthened feeble hands.^(B)
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;^(C)
    you have strengthened faltering knees.^(D)
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;^(E)
    it strikes^(F) you, and you are dismayed.^(G)
6 Should not your piety be your confidence^(H)
    and your blameless^(I) ways your hope?

¹¹ Whoever heard me spoke well of me,
    and those who saw me commended me,^(A)
12 because I rescued the poor^(B) who cried for help,
    and the fatherless^(C) who had none to assist them.^(D)
13 The one who was dying blessed me;^(E)
    I made the widow’s^(F) heart sing.
¹⁴ I put on righteousness^(G) as my clothing;
    justice was my robe and my turban.^(H)
15 I was eyes^(I) to the blind
    and feet to the lame.^(J)
16 I was a father to the needy;^(K)
    I took up the case^(L) of the stranger.^(M)
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked
    and snatched the victims^(N) from their teeth.^(O)