This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no tr
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the la
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses t
to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocen
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make thems
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,