<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If your brother<n id="1" /> becomes impoverished and is indebted to you,<n id="2" /> you must support<n id="3" /> him; he must live<n id="4" /> with you like a foreign resident.<n id="5" />

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner;<n id="1" /> he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

<p class="poetry">Is it because of your piety<n id="1" /> that he rebukes youp> <p class="poetry">and goes to judgment with you?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> will reply to you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and to your friends with you.p>

<p class="poetry">Then he will judge<n id="1" /> your people fairly,p> <p class="poetry">and your oppressed ones<n id="2" /> equitably.p>

<p class="poetry">But I am continually with you;p> <p class="poetry">you hold my right hand.p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, they crush your people;p> <p class="poetry">they oppress the nation that belongs to you.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Remember me, O <sc>Lordsc>, when you show favor to your people!p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention to me, when you deliver,p>

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> you are willing to forgive,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so that you might<n id="3" /> be honored.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I tried to count them,p> <p class="poetry">they would outnumber the grains of sand.p> <p class="poetry">Even if I finished counting them,p> <p class="poetry">I would still have to contend with you.<n id="1" />p>

They replied, &#8220;We could plainly see<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> is with you. So we decided there should be<n id="2" /> a pact between us<n id="3" /> &#8211; between us<n id="4" /> and you. Allow us to make<n id="5" /> a treaty with you

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers<n id="1" /> and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that<n id="2" /> he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member<n id="3" /> of a foreigner&#8217;s family,

Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;But these things<n id="1" /> you have concealed in your heart;p> <p class="poetry">I know that this<n id="2" /> is with you:<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But if only God would speak,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if only he would open his lips against you,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Are God&#8217;s consolations<n id="1" /> too trivial for you;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or a word spoken<n id="3" /> in gentleness to you?p>

<p class="poetry">Make then my pledge<n id="1" /> with you.p> <p class="poetry">Who else will put up security for me?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For in truth, my words are not false;p> <p class="poetry">it is one complete<n id="1" /> in knowledgep> <p class="poetry">who is with you.p>

<p class="poetry">Will it make a pact<n id="1" /> with you,p> <p class="poetry">so you could take it<n id="2" /> as your slave for life?p>