"Oh, how I am burdened down with you, as a wagon is overloaded with harvested grain!

For they do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “these who store up violence and devastation [like treasures] in their strongholds.”

'I have smitten you with drought and blasting: and look how many orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees ye had: the caterpillar hath eaten them up. But yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right .

"Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.

And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.