They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;
The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;
“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
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