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1 Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws
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Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the needy of their rights and to rob the poor among my people of justice; to make widows their loot; to steal from orphans! when disaster comes from far away? To whom will you flee for help; where will you stash your wealth?
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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.
3 What will you do on the day of punishment
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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?
4 How will you avoid crouching among the prisoners and falling among the slain? Even so, God's anger hasn't turned away; God's hand is still extended.
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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.
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