They eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.

Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

“Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man,
but afterward his mouth is full of gravel.

for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.

The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

This is what the Lord says
concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray,
who proclaim peace
when they have food to sink their teeth into
but declare war against the one
who puts nothing in their mouths.

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence,
and its residents speak lies;
the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

The princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are wolves of the night,
which leave nothing for the morning.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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