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XXIV] :They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
 * And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
 * They pluck the fatherless from the breast,
 * And take a pledge of the poor.
 * They cause him to go naked without clothing,
 * And they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
 * Which make oil within their walls,
 * And tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
 * Men groan from out of the city,
 * And the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
 * They are of those that rebel against the light;
 * They know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 * The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
 * And in the night is as a thief.
 * The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight.
 * Saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
 * In the dark they dig through houses,
 * Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime:
 * They know not the light.
 * For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death:
 * If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
 * He is swift as the waters: