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From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
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Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
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People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.
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Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.
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Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
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For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
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Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
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Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
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Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
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to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
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As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’”
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I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.
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Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
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you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!
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Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.
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It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
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I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
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Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
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Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
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Feet trample it down— the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
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Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,
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Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
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Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
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“All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.
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to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
