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He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will hear the prayer of the oppressed.
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He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless, nor the widow when she poureth out her complaint.
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Do not the tears run down the widow's cheeks? And is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
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He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favor, and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.
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The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds, and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the Most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgment.
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For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be patient toward them, till He have smitten asunder the loins of the unmerciful, and repaid vengeance to the heathen; till He have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the scepter of the unrighteous;
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till He have rendered to every man according to his deeds, and to the works of men according to their devices; till He have judged the cause of His people, and made them to rejoice in His mercy.
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Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.