5. So I will send fire against Judah,and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.
6. Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they sell the righteous for silver,and the poor for a pair of sandals.
7. They trample the head of the poorinto the dust of the earth,and push the oppressed out of the way.A man and his father go in to the same woman,profaning My holy name.
8. They recline by every altaron garments taken in pledge,and in the house of their godsthey drink the wine from those who have been fined.
9. Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,whose height was like the height of the cedars.He was strong as the oaks,yet I destroyed his fruit aboveand his roots below.