Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart- an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is approaching. And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in need, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.

You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin to you.

If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;

and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking from [him],

They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

And God, shall He not execute justice for His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, and yet He is patient with them?

so as to bring before Him the cry of the needy; for He will hear the cry of the poor.

The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: Your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth. [In the Septuagint, Psalms 9 and 10 are combined, and the Psalm numbers differ from this point on. [The Apostles' Bible] follows the traditional Psalm divisions, to avoid confusion.]

And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: He heard my voice out of His holy temple, and my cry shall enter before Him, into His ears.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

He will perform the desire of them that fear Him: and He will hear their supplication, and save them.

who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones.

He will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates.

For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

Remove not the ancient landmarks, and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless;

for the Lord is their redeemer; He is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.