2Alas for those who devise wickedness
and evil deeds* on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in their power.
2 They covet fields, and seize them;
houses, and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.
3 Therefore, thus says the Lord:
Now, I am devising against this family an evil
from which you cannot remove your necks;
and you shall not walk haughtily,
for it will be an evil time.
4 On that day they shall take up a taunt-song against you,
and wail with bitter lamentation,
and say, We are utterly ruined;
the Lord * alters the inheritance of my people;
how he removes it from me!
Among our captors* he parcels out our fields.
5 Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
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1 Why stand so far off, O Lord? ♦︎
Why hide yourself in time of trouble?
2 The wicked in their pride persecute the poor; ♦︎
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
3 The wicked boast of their hearts desire; ♦︎
the covetous curse and revile the Lord.
4 The wicked in their arrogance say, God will not avenge it; ♦︎
in all their scheming God counts for nothing.
5 They are stubborn in all their ways,
for your judgements are far above out of their sight; ♦︎
they scoff at all their adversaries.
12 Arise, O Lord God, and lift up your hand; ♦︎
forget not the poor.
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14But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
15 When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds* followed him, and he cured all of them,
16and he ordered them not to make him known.
17This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
18 Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
20 He will not break a bruised reed
or quench a smouldering wick
until he brings justice to victory.
21 And in his name the Gentiles will hope.
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