¹ tn Or “poor.”

² tn That is, “the poor.”

¹ tn Heb “poor of the people.”

² tn Heb “poor of the land.”

¹ tn Heb “to buy the poor for silver.”

¹ tn Or “A mocker of the poor.”

¹ tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”

⁴ tn Heb “their rejoicing is like devouring the poor in secret.”

² tn Heb “and the just cause of the poor.”

² tn Heb “her poor I will satisfy [with] food.”

² tn Or “poor.” The precise referent of this Hebrew term is unclear. The word may refer to the economically poor or to the spiritually humble.

⁶ tn Heb “whether poor or rich” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); the more common English idiom reverses the order (“rich or poor”; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹ sn The expression trade silver for the poor refers to the slave trade.

¹ tn Or “rob” (ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); KJV “take away the right from the poor.”

⁵ tn Heb “the plunder of the poor [is] in your houses” (so NASB).

⁶ tn That is, the one who has been kind to the poor.

³ tn The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.

⁴ sn You who are poor is a reference to the “pious poor” for whom God especially cares. See Pss 14:6; 22:24; 25:16; 34:6; 40:17; 69:29.

² sn The poor in spirit is a reference to the “pious poor” for whom God especially cares. See Pss 14:6; 22:24; 25:16; 34:6; 40:17; 69:29.

¹ tc The Hebrew text reads “Poor [is] Anathoth.” The parallelism is tighter if עֲנִיָּה (ʿaniyyah, “poor”) is emended to עֲנִיהָ (ʿaniha, “answer her”). Note how the preceding two lines have an imperative followed by a proper name.