Will you maintain and plead your own cause? And will He enter into judgment with you?

For He will not lay upon a man more [than right].

And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight shall no [man] living be justified.

the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, the prophet, the counselor, and the elder,

the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counselor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [His] beloved plant; I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

They have turned aside the weak from the right way, and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time; the poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich.

Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.

And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

[Is there] not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

"Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey.