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Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,
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to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!
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What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,
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so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
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Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!
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Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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