10 Your people settled in it,
    and from your bounty,(A) God, you provided(B) for the poor.

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29 But as for me, afflicted and in pain—
    may your salvation, God, protect me.(A)

30 I will praise God’s name in song(B)
    and glorify him(C) with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox,
    more than a bull with its horns and hooves.(D)
32 The poor will see and be glad(E)
    you who seek God, may your hearts live!(F)
33 The Lord hears the needy(G)
    and does not despise his captive people.

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15 I will bless her with abundant provisions;
    her poor I will satisfy with food.(A)

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The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit(A) of the Sovereign Lord(B) is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed(C) me
    to proclaim good news(D) to the poor.(E)
He has sent me to bind up(F) the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom(G) for the captives(H)
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind

Has not my hand made all these things,(A)
    and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.

“These are the ones I look on with favor:
    those who are humble and contrite in spirit,(B)
    and who tremble at my word.(C)

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