TSK · Ecclesiastes 4:1

and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them."

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.