³ Does God pervert justice?
    Or does the Almighty^[a] pervert the right?^(A)

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
    who has resisted him and succeeded?^(A)

⁹     in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
    but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
    he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.^(A)