Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and mar the faces of the innocents?" Thus shall the LORD God of Hosts revile them.

They smite down thy people, O LORD, and trouble thine heritage.

And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them, "Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?"

Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.

"What mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Israel, I will not spare him: because he hath sold the righteous for money, and the poor for shoes.

Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,

And the master of the ship came to him and said unto him, "Why slumberest thou? Up! And call unto thy god, that God may think on us, that we perish not."

But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones;

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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

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"What mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
And the master of the ship came to him and said unto him, "Why slumberest thou? Up! And call unto thy god, that God may think on us, that we perish not."

Ye beat

Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.
And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them, "Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?"
"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Israel, I will not spare him: because he hath sold the righteous for money, and the poor for shoes.
Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,
But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones;

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"'When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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