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They ·are not fair [withold justice] to the poor [Ex. 23:6, 11; Deut. 15:4–11],
    and they ·rob [deprive] my people of their rights.
They ·allow people to steal from widows [L make widows their plunder/prey; Ex. 22:22]
    and ·to take from orphans what really belongs to them [L plunder/loot the fatherless; Deut. 10:18].
·How will you explain the things you have done [L What will you do on the day of accounting/visitation]?
    What will you do when your destruction comes from far away?
·Where [or To whom] will you run for help?
    Where will you ·hide your riches [or leave your wealth/glory] then?
You will have to ·bow down [kneel; cower] among the captives
    or fall down among the ·dead bodies [L slain ones].
But the Lord is still angry;
    his hand is still ·raised to strike down the people [outstretched].

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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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