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To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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to deprive(A) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(B)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.(C)
What will you do on the day of reckoning,(D)
    when disaster(E) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(F)
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(G)
    or fall among the slain.(H)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(I)
    his hand is still upraised.

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