1. Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2. And he said,
3. And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day,
4. Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5. Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6. That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7. The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,