Psalm 68:10
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10 your flock found a dwelling in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.(A)
Psalm 74:19
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19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.(A)
Deuteronomy 26:9-10
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9 and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.(A) 10 So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.’ You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God.
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1 Peter 5:3
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3 Do not lord it over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.(A)
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Luke 1:53
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53 he has filled the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away empty.(A)
Matthew 11:5
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5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.(A)
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Psalm 78:20
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20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(A)
Psalm 74:1-2
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Psalm 74
Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?(A)
2 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,
which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.
Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.(B)
Psalm 65:9
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9 You visit the earth and water it;
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide the people with grain,
for so you have prepared it.(A)
Job 5:10-11
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10 He gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;(A)
11 he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.(B)
1 Samuel 2:8
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8 He raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
to make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:8-14
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8 When the Most High[a] apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;[b](A)
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share.(B)
10 He sustained[c] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(C)
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,(D)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(E)
13 He set him atop the heights of the land
and fed him with[d] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,(F)
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
together with the choicest wheat—
you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.(G)
Deuteronomy 26:5
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5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.(A)
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Numbers 16:3
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3 They assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”(A)
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Exodus 19:5-6
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5 Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,(A) 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”(B)
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