You have sent widows away empty, and crushed the arms of the fatherless.

Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread terrifies you;

Men groan from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God does not charge them with folly.

because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no one to help him.

The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;

if his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.

And it came to pass after many days that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And Jehovah said: I have given attention to see the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I have acknowledged their pain.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah; I will set him in the safety for which he pants.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

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

If you afflict them to humiliate them, and they make an outcry to cry out unto Me, I will hear and give heed to their cry;

If you lend money to My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not lay interest on him.

For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries out to Me, I will give heed, for I am gracious.