Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots with which you would do me wrong.

For you say, Where is the house of the noble one? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Some remove landmarks; they seize flocks and feed on them;

They thrust away the needy out of the road; the poor of the land have been forced into hiding together.

They gather their fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and hug the rock for want of shelter.

They cause them to go naked, without clothing; and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Men groan from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God does not charge them with folly.

If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me,

Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

or eaten my morsel by myself, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;

if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Look at me. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.

And they said, You have not cheated us nor oppressed us, nor have you taken anything from any man's hand.

to vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah; I will set him in the safety for which he pants.

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the needy.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor oppress the afflicted in the gate;

for Jehovah will plead their case, and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest watches; so there are those higher than they.

The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, Bring in, that we may drink.

And you shall go out at the breaches, each woman before her; and you shall be cast into the high fortress, declares Jehovah.

But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to the judgment seats?

For judgment will be without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Indeed, mercy rejoices over judgment.

Indeed the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

to crush all the prisoners of the earth under His feet;

What is not his dwells in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.

Some remove landmarks; they seize flocks and feed on them;

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: Have you murdered and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until there is no more space for you to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

You have thrown the women of My people out from their pleasant houses; you have taken away My honor forever from their children.