17-20 The wicked bought a one-way
    ticket to hell.
No longer will the poor be nameless—
    no more humiliation for the humble.
Up, God! Aren’t you fed up with their empty strutting?
    Expose these grand pretensions!
Shake them up, God!
    Show them how silly they look.

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18 But God will never forget the needy;
    the hope(A) of the afflicted(B) will never perish.

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18 But the needy will not be ignored forever;
    the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

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18 The poor and the homeless
won't always be forgotten
    and without hope.

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