Add parallel Print Page Options

They walk on poor people
    as if they were dirt.
    They refuse to be fair to those who are suffering.
Fathers and sons have physical relations with the same woman.
    By doing this they ruin my holy name.
As they worship at their altars,
    they lie down on clothes taken from poor people.
They make people pay money as punishment.
    With that money they buy wine to drink in the house of their god.

“But it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them.
    The Amorites were tall like cedar trees and as strong as oaks.
But I destroyed them completely.

Read full chapter

They trample on the heads of the poor
    as on the dust of the ground
    and deny justice to the oppressed.
Father and son use the same girl
    and so profane my holy name.(A)
They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.(B)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine(C) taken as fines.(D)

“Yet I destroyed the Amorites(E) before them,
    though they were tall(F) as the cedars
    and strong as the oaks.(G)
I destroyed their fruit above
    and their roots(H) below.

Read full chapter