Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt f
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?