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10     They force the poor to wander naked, no clothing to be had,
        carrying the very bundles of grain they long to eat.
11     They are stationed among the terraces[a]
        pressing oil from the olive that calls to their hunger;
        they trample in winepresses, extracting the juice for which they thirst.
12     At the outskirts of the city, the oppressed groan,
        wounded souls crying for help,
        but God fails to charge the guilty who have brought them such pain.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:11 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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