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Let there be none to aextend lovingkindness to him, Nor bany to be gracious to his fatherless children.
a
Ezra 7:28, Ezra 9:9
Ezra 7
28
and ahas extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king's mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to bthe hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 9
9
"aFor we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but bhas extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.