5:7 Indeed
the people
He waited for justice, but look what he got – disobedience!
He waited for fairness, but look what he got – cries for help!
24:2 Men
they seize the flock and pasture them.
24:3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey;
they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
24:4 They turn the needy from the pathway,
and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
24:5 Like
they
seeking diligently for food;
the wasteland provides
and for their children.
24:6 They reap fodder
and glean
24:7 They spend the night naked because they lack clothing;
they have no covering against the cold.
5:27 Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught,
their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit.
That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
4:1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan
You
you crush the needy.
You say to your
“Bring us more to drink!”
2:2 They confiscate the fields they desire,
and seize the houses they want.
They defraud people of their homes,
and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
6:10 “I will not overlook,
or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner