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    The fatherless child is torn away from the breast;
        the suckling babe is seized as collateral from the poor.
10     They force the poor to wander naked, no clothing to be had,
        carrying the very bundles of grain they long to eat.
11     They are stationed among the terraces[a]
        pressing oil from the olive that calls to their hunger;
        they trample in winepresses, extracting the juice for which they thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:11 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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