Son of man, what do you mean by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why do you snore? Arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

If you fast for quarrels and strife, and strike the lowly with [your] fists, why do you fast to Me as [you do] this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, [and were asked], Why have you not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, [and] today also?

Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,