²³ If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

⁷ And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

⁶ In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

²⁸ So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

¹⁷ Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.