Beware that there not be a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, approaches; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it become sin unto you.

Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and is sustaining his soul with it; lest he cry out against you unto Jehovah, and it be sin in you.

If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together;

if I have eaten its produce without money, or caused its owners to expire their souls;

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

And shall God not avenge His elect who cry out day and night to Him, as He is patient with them?

so that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him; for He hears the cry of the lowly.

Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the lowly; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,

to vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.

who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah lets loose the prisoners.

Jehovah watches over the sojourners; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor oppress the afflicted in the gate;

for Jehovah will plead their case, and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

Do not remove the ancient landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

for their Redeemer is mighty; He shall plead their case against you.

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.