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Book I: The Cry in Hester Panim and the Breaking of the Adversarial Arm
Why standest thou afar off, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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Tahiliym 10
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The Pride of the Wicked
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 abhorreth.
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The Absence of Alahiym
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after Alahiym: Alahiym is not in all his thoughts.
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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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The Delusion of Impunity
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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The Predatory Matrix
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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The Assumption of Sovereign Blindness
He hath said in his heart, El hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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The Petition to Arise
Arise, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; O El, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn Alahiym? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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The Omniscient Witness
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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Breaking the Arm of the Wicked
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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The Eternal King
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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The Preparation of the Heart
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
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The Final Justice
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.