And I have broken the bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from Bikat-Aven, And a holder of a sceptre from Beth-Eden, And removed have been the people of Aram to Kir, said Jehovah.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.