“Surely God is mighty and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
“Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
“If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me,
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
He will regard the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he perceives from far away.
Great is our Lord and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me but heard when I cried to him.
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own who are in bonds.
Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings.