None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.

He cheats the poor, he robs, he keeps what a borrower gives him as security. He goes to pagan shrines, worships disgusting idols,

Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.

The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good---they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!

You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,

"Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

why they are fat and well fed. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They do not give orphans their rights or show justice to the oppressed.

Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly; even prophets and priests cheat the people.

The LORD says, "These people fill their mansions with things taken by crime and violence. They don't even know how to be honest.

When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.

You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.

None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.

None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.

"Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner; remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

"Do not mistreat a foreigner; you know how it feels to be a foreigner, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

"Do not mistreat foreigners who are living in your land.

They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

I was a stranger but you would not welcome me in your homes, naked but you would not clothe me; I was sick and in prison but you would not take care of me.'