¹² Arise,^(A) Lord! Lift up your hand,^(B) O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.^(C)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?^(D)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?^(E)
14 But you, God, see the trouble^(F) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;^(G)
    you are the helper^(H) of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked man;^(I)
    call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
    that would not otherwise be found out.

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever;^(J)
    the nations^(K) will perish from his land.
¹⁷ You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;^(L)
    you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,^(M)
18 defending the fatherless^(N) and the oppressed,^(O)
    so that mere earthly mortals
    will never again strike terror.

⁵ “Because the poor are plundered^(A) and the needy groan,^(B)
    I will now arise,^(C)” says the Lord.
    “I will protect them^(D) from those who malign them.”

⁶ You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
    but the Lord is their refuge.^(A)