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9:15-18 God Protects the Needy by Defeating the Wicked. The song again celebrates how God defends the poor by defeating their oppressors. Here the wicked (vv. 16, 17) are expressly those Gentiles who oppose God's purposes (vv. 15, 17), while the needy and poor are the people of Israel under threat (v. 18).