"They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor."
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Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,
They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.