The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it,
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance