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1 Ah! Those who enact unjust statutes, who write oppressive decrees, 2 Depriving the needy of judgment, robbing my people’s poor of justice, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey! 3 What will you do on the day of punishment, when the storm comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth, 4 Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain? For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched! 5 Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger. 6 Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street. 7 But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of not a few nations. Isaiah 10:1-7, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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