Judgment on Israel

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,