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O Yahweh, Be Gracious to Me

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

41 How blessed is he who (A)considers the [a]poor;
Yahweh will provide him escape (B)in a day of [b]calamity.
Yahweh will (C)keep him and keep him alive,
And he shall be (D)blessed upon the earth;
And (E)do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
Yahweh will sustain him upon his sickbed;
In his illness, You [c]restore him to health.

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  1. Psalm 41:1 Or helpless
  2. Psalm 41:1 Lit evil
  3. Psalm 41:3 Lit turn all his bed

Is this not the fast which I choose,
To (A)loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To release the bands of [a]the yoke,
And to (B)let the oppressed go free
And (C)break every [b]yoke?
Is it not to (D)divide your bread [c]with the hungry
And (E)bring the afflicted homeless into the house;
When you see the (F)naked, you cover him;
And not to (G)hide yourself from your own flesh?

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  1. Isaiah 58:6 Lit the bar of the yoke
  2. Isaiah 58:6 Lit the bar of the yoke
  3. Isaiah 58:7 Lit for

10 And if you [a](A)offer your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the soul of the afflicted,
Then your (B)light will rise in darkness
And your thick darkness will become like midday.

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  1. Isaiah 58:10 Lit furnish