When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

And gladness is taken away, and joy from the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage-shouting to cease.

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.