Deuteronomy 10:18
Hebrew Bible
16 Therefore, circumcise your hearts and stop being so stubborn! 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe, 18 who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing. 19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Psalm 146:9
Hebrew Bible
7 vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned. 8 The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly. 9 The Lord protects the resident foreigner. He lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked. 10 The Lord rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come. Praise the Lord!
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Psalm 146 recalls the heart of Book IV—God reigns. At the same time, it echoes the very beginning of the Psalter. Happiness derives from dependence upon God alone (Psalm 146:5; see 1:1–2; 2:12), “who does justice” (146:7; see 1:5), and “the way of the wicked he brings to ruin” (Psalm 146:9; see 1:6; 147:6). Because God reigns, the individual psalmist (146:1–2) joins Zion and all Israel in praising God (147:1, 7, 12; 149:1–3, 5–6). Praise embodies both liturgical and existential submission to God and to God’s will. Because God’s sovereign claim is aimed at nothing short of universe-encompassing justice and righteousness (see 96:10–13; 98:7–9), the psalmist ultimately joins heaven, earth, every creature, and all creation in bringing the Psalter to a conclusion with a crescendo of praise (148:1–12; 150:6). To be sure, opposition to God and to God’s will is evident at the end of the Psalter (see 144:7–8, 11; 149:7–9) as it was at the beginning (see Psalms 1–2) and throughout. But amid the pervasive opposition, the persistent commitment to God and to God’s will - Torah, “instruction” - means that the Psalter appropriately bears in Hebrew the name “Praises.” To take the editorial shape of the Psalter seriously means that such God centeredness and Torah directedness constitute at least one major context for interpreting the Psalm ..."
McCann Jr., J. Clinton
"The Shape and Shaping of the Psalter: Psalms in their Literary Context" in Brown, William P. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms
(pp. 350-362) Oxford University Press, 2014
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