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    Drive off orphans’ donkeys,
        take as collateral widows’ oxen,
    Drive the needy off the road,
        and force the poor into hiding together.
    Look at how the poor are forced to live!
        Like wild donkeys in the desert,
    They spend all their energy scrounging for food,
        hoping the desert provides enough to feed their children!

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They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(A)
They thrust the needy(B) from the path
    and force all the poor(C) of the land into hiding.(D)
Like wild donkeys(E) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor(F) of foraging food;
    the wasteland(G) provides food for their children.

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