Psalm 69:33

Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

For God the poor hears, and will not his prisoners contemn.

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God doth the solitary set in fam'lies: and from bands The chain'd doth free; but rebels do inhabit parched lands.

Who righteous judgment executes for those oppress'd that be, Who to the hungry giveth food; God sets the pris'ners free.

For poor oppress'd, and for the sighs of needy, rise will I, Saith God, and him in safety set from such as him defy.

That of the mournful prisoner the groanings he might hear, To set them free that unto death by men appointed are:

The prayer of the destitute he surely will regard; Their prayer will he not despise, by him it shall be heard.

This poor man cry'd, God heard, and sav'd him from all his distresses.

O Lord, of those that humble are thou the desire didst hear; Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou to hear wilt bend thine ear;

Such as shut up in darkness deep, and in death's shade abide, Whom strongly hath affliction bound, and irons fast have ty'd:

All ends of th' earth remember shall, and turn the Lord unto; All kindreds of the nations to him shall homage do:

Extol the Lord with me, let us exalt his name together.