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They thrust the needy off the road;
    the poor of the earth all hide themselves.(A)

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28 When the wicked prevail, people go into hiding,
    but when they perish, the righteous increase.

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they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
    and push the afflicted out of the way;
father and son go in to the same young woman,
    so that my holy name is profaned;(A)

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14 The murderer rises at dusk
    to kill the poor and needy
    and in the night is like a thief.(A)

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Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A) You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.(B) You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

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Social Evils Denounced

Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.(A)
They covet fields and seize them,
    houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
    people and their inheritance.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
saying, “When will the new moon be over
    so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
    so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
    and practice deceit with false balances,(B)
buying the poor for silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(C)

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29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.(A)

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18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.

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12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)

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to turn aside the needy from justice
    and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
to make widows their spoil
    and to plunder orphans!(A)

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14 there are those whose teeth are swords,
    whose teeth are knives
to devour the poor from off the earth,
    the needy from among mortals.(A)

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12 When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory,
    but when the wicked prevail, people go into hiding.(A)

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16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
    and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

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16 For he did not remember to show kindness
    but pursued the poor and needy
    and the brokenhearted to their death.(A)

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Psalm 41

Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing

To the leader. A Psalm of David.

Happy are those who consider the poor;[a]
    the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 41.1 Or weak

16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired
    or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail(A)

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25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?
    Was not my soul grieved for the poor?(A)

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12 because I delivered the poor who cried
    and the orphan who had no helper.(A)

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