Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.