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    The hard mountain rains soak them
        as they press themselves against rocks in the absence of real shelter;
    The fatherless child is torn away from the breast;
        the suckling babe is seized as collateral from the poor.
10     They force the poor to wander naked, no clothing to be had,
        carrying the very bundles of grain they long to eat.

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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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