Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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1 But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,
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“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2 while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
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There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
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They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
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They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to little ones.
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Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6 They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
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They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
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They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 And they have wrongfully caused to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.
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They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 Who have cast forth poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their paths?
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“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 and the eye of the adulterer has watched the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.
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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.
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In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For the morning is to them all the shadow of death, for will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
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For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.
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“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
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As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
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The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
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They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, will not feel secure of his own life.
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But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23 When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.
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He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24 For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.
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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25 But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
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“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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