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They are wet with the showers of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

[The violent men whose wickedness seems unnoticed] pluck the fatherless infants from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], and take [the clothing on] the poor for a pledge,

10 So that the needy go about naked for lack of clothing, and though hungry, they must carry [but not eat from] the sheaves.

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They are drenched(A) by mountain rains
    and hug(B) the rocks for lack of shelter.(C)
The fatherless(D) child is snatched(E) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(F) for a debt.(G)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(H)
    they carry the sheaves,(I) but still go hungry.

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