¹⁵ What do you mean by crushing my people^(A)
    and grinding^(B) the faces of the poor?”^(C)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.^(D)

⁵ They crush your people,^(A) Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.^(B)

²     you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;^(A)
3 who eat my people’s flesh,^(B)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;^(C)
who chop^(D) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?^(E)”

⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor^(A) of the land,^(B)

“When will the New Moon^(C) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(D) wheat?”^(E)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(F) with dishonest scales,^(G)
6 buying the poor^(H) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(I)

“For three sins of Israel,
    even for four, I will not relent.^(A)
They sell the innocent for silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals.^(B)
7 They trample on the heads of the poor
    as on the dust of the ground
    and deny justice to the oppressed.
Father and son use the same girl
    and so profane my holy name.^(C)

“‘The parents eat sour grapes,
    and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?^(A)

⁴ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,^(A)
    and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
    and expect your voice to be heard^(B) on high.