¹⁴ The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

⁴ Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

4 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

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

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

² The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

³ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.