¹⁴ The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

⁴ Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

⁶ But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

¹⁰ Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

² They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

¹ Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

²⁷ As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

² The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

³ The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

⁴ Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

²³ For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

⁹ The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

² The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

³ They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

⁴ The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

⁶ They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

⁷ They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.