10 Your people settled in it,
    and from your bounty,(A) God, you provided(B) for the poor.

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19 Do not hand over the life of your dove(A) to wild beasts;
    do not forget the lives of your afflicted(B) people forever.

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He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;(A) 10 and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.(B)” Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him.

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not lording it over(A) those entrusted to you, but being examples(B) to the flock.

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53 He has filled the hungry with good things(A)
    but has sent the rich away empty.

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The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.(A)

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  1. Matthew 11:5 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

20 True, he struck the rock,
    and water gushed out,(A)
    streams flowed abundantly,
but can he also give us bread?
    Can he supply meat(B) for his people?”

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Psalm 74

A maskil[a] of Asaph.

O God, why have you rejected(A) us forever?(B)
    Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?(C)
Remember the nation you purchased(D) long ago,(E)
    the people of your inheritance,(F) whom you redeemed(G)
    Mount Zion,(H) where you dwelt.(I)

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  1. Psalm 74:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

You care for the land and water it;(A)
    you enrich it abundantly.(B)
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,(C)
    for so you have ordained it.[a]

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  1. Psalm 65:9 Or for that is how you prepare the land

10 He provides rain for the earth;(A)
    he sends water on the countryside.(B)
11 The lowly he sets on high,(C)
    and those who mourn(D) are lifted(E) to safety.

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He raises(A) the poor(B) from the dust(C)
    and lifts the needy(D) from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
    and has them inherit a throne of honor.(E)

“For the foundations(F) of the earth are the Lord’s;
    on them he has set the world.

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When the Most High(A) gave the nations their inheritance,
    when he divided all mankind,(B)
he set up boundaries(C) for the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of Israel.[a](D)
For the Lord’s portion(E) is his people,
    Jacob his allotted inheritance.(F)

10 In a desert(G) land he found him,
    in a barren and howling waste.(H)
He shielded(I) him and cared for him;
    he guarded him as the apple of his eye,(J)
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,(K)
that spreads its wings to catch them
    and carries them aloft.(L)
12 The Lord alone led(M) him;(N)
    no foreign god was with him.(O)

13 He made him ride on the heights(P) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(Q)
    and with oil(R) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(S)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(T)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(U)

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering(A) Aramean,(B) and he went down into Egypt with a few people(C) and lived there and became a great nation,(D) powerful and numerous.

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They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron(A) and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy,(B) every one of them, and the Lord is with them.(C) Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”(D)

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Now if you obey me fully(A) and keep my covenant,(B) then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.(C) Although the whole earth(D) is mine, you[a] will be for me a kingdom of priests(E) and a holy nation.’(F) These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

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  1. Exodus 19:6 Or possession, for the whole earth is mine. You

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