¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

⁵ Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

⁶ They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

¹³ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

³ Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

¹² Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

⁴ Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,

⁵ Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel large, And dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

²⁵ There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.

²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

²⁷ Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

²⁸ Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.

²⁸ They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

¹⁷ Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

¹⁷ "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?

⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁵ You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.