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    They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
    There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,
and take a pledge of the poor,
10     So that they go around naked without clothing.
    Being hungry, they carry 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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