Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
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“Why doesn’t the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment? Why must the godly wait for him in vain?
2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
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Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.
3 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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They take the orphan’s donkey and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.
4 They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
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The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety.
5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
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Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.
6 They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
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They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
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All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering.
8 Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
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They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.
9 They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
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“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.
10 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
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The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.
11 They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
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They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.
12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.
13 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
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“Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.
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The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
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The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him.
16 He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
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Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light.
17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
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The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
18 He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
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“But they disappear like foam down a river. Everything they own is cursed, and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.
19 Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
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The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow.
20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
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Their own mothers will forget them. Maggots will find them sweet to eat. No one will remember them. Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm.
21 For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.
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They cheat the woman who has no son to help her. They refuse to help the needy widow.
22 He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.
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“God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life.
23 God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.
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They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.
24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.
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And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain.
25 And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?
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Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?”
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