6. the Lord says:“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,I will not turn away its punishment;because they have sold the righteous for silver,and the needy for a pair of shoes;
7. They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,and deny justice to the oppressed;and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
8. and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
9. Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,whose height was like the height of the cedars,and he was strong as the oaks;yet I destroyed his fruit from above,and his roots from beneath.
10. Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,and led you forty years in the wilderness,to possess the land of the Amorite.