Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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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.
5
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.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
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.
10
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.
11
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.
12
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?
13
“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:
14
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.
15
The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
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