Amos 8:4-7 p Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ [p] Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying, ⁵ "When will the new moon be over that we may buy? And the sabbaths, that we may open store? to make the measure small, and the weight heavy, and to make the balance uneven, ⁶ that we may purchase the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, when from every kind of product we shall have made gain. ⁷ The Lord sweareth, in opposition to this arrogance of Jacob, that none of these works of yours shall ever be forgotten.