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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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What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
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Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.