Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a b