¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from `their' desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

⁷ If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother;

⁸ but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need `in that' which he wanteth.

⁹ Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

²⁹ And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judea:

²¹ and desiring to be fed with the `crumbs' that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs come and licked his sores.

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

¹⁴ Like a swallow `or' a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail `with looking' upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

¹²³ Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.

⁸² Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

⁹ He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; His righteousness endureth for ever: His horn shall be exalted with honor.

³ I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹⁹ For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

¹⁰ only `they would' that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.