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As the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, & the moneth which was turned vnto them, from sorrow to ioy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them daies of feasting and ioy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poore.

But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mightie.

So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.

1611 marginal notePsal. 107.42.

His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods.

1611 marginal noteOr, the poore shall oppresse his children.

Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:

1611 marginal noteHebr. crushed.

1611 marginal noteEccles. 5.12.

They turne the needy out of the way: the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.

The murderer rising with the light, killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe.

Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.