to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the needy among my people of justice,(A)
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.(B)
What will you do on the day of punishment
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
There will be nothing to do
except crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
In all this, his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is still raised to strike.(C)

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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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