It is dangerous ¹  to have zeal ²  without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily ³  makes poor choices. ⁴ 

and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.” ¹ 

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. ¹  Don’t spare them! ² 

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low. ¹ 

At that time ¹  a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk. ¹ 

My heart is crushed because my dear people ¹  are being crushed. ²  I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ³ 

Poor dear Egypt ¹  will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

The Israelites ¹  turn justice into bitterness; ²  they throw what is fair and right ³  to the ground. ⁴ 

But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

he has filled the hungry with good things, ¹  and has sent the rich away empty. ² 

Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door ¹  and saw him, they were greatly astonished. ² 

With regard to the collection for the saints, please follow the directions that I gave to the churches of Galatia: ¹ 

But God, who encourages ¹  the downhearted, encouraged ²  us by the arrival of Titus.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping ¹  the saints.

You have taken notice, ¹  for ²  you always see ³  one who inflicts pain and suffering. ⁴  The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; ⁵  you deliver ⁶  the fatherless. ⁷ 

does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, ¹  does not commit robbery, ²  but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

“If thieves came to rob you ¹  during the night, ²  they would steal only as much as they wanted! ³  If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, ⁴  they would leave some behind for the poor! ⁵  But you will be totally destroyed! ⁶