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There are five famous titles of God here.

I. EMANCIPATOR. He looseth those in mental, moral, and spiritual bondage.

II. ILLUMINATOR. The Lord has opened the eyes of many a man who could not see himself, and so proved how blind he was; and could not see the Lord, and so showed still more how blind he was. The Lord has given the inner sight to many a man who was without spiritual understanding, to whom the Gospel seemed a great mystery, of which he could make neither head nor tail.

III. COMFORTER. He "raiseth them that are bowed down" with —

1. Bereavement.

2. The burdens of life.

3. Inward distress.

4. A sense of sin.

IV. REWARDER. He "loveth the righteous" — with a love of complacency, communion, favour, and honour.

V. PRESERVER.

1. He "preserveth the strangers." Father is dead, mother is dead, friends are all gone, and even in the very village where you were born you are a stranger; come along, your God is not dead, your Saviour liveth: "The Lord preserveth the stangers."

2. "He relieveth the fatherless and widow." If you turn to the first books of the Bible, you will see there God's great care of the fatherless and the widow. Who had the tithes? Well, the Levites; but also the poor, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow (Deuteronomy 14:28; Deuteronomy 26:12). Now, then, you who feel like widows, you who have lost your joy and earthly comfort, you who feel like the fatherless, and cry, "No man careth for my soul," oh, may the sweet Spirit of the Lord entice you to come to Him.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

WEB: who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.