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to deprive the needy of justice,
and to rob the poor among my people of their rights,
to plunder widows,
and to make the fatherless their prey!
What will you do when the day comes to settle accounts,
during the devastation that will descend from far away?
To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
The only thing left for you will be to kneel among the prisoners
and to fall under the dead bodies.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.

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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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