Judgment for Social Injustice

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The LORD’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

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Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short efah that is accursed?

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Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

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You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

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You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

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For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

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