²⁹ Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

⁹ Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

⁹ Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.