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Ezra Chapter 24

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that

3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work;

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the

7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for

17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave

20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;

21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not

22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no

23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet

24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought

25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my