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You take away the rights of poor people.
    You hold back what is fair from my people who are suffering.
You take for yourselves what belongs to widows.
    You rob children whose fathers have died.
What will you do on the day when the Lord punishes you?
    On that day trouble will come from far away.
Who will you run to for help?
    Who will you trust your riches with?
All you can do is bow down in fear among the prisoners.
    All you can do is fall among those who have died in battle.

Even then, the Lord is still angry.
    His hand is still raised against them.

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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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