4. Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
5. saying, “When does the New Moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ĕphah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit,
6. to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7. יהוה has sworn by the Excellency of Ya‛aqoḇ, “I shall never forget any of their works.