Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: