²⁷ As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

¹² We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,

⁶ thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁷ Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

⁸ And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'

⁴ Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

⁶ To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

¹² For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

¹¹ Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

⁹ Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful `is' thy soul.

¹¹ For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

² and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,