4. Hear this, you who trample the needyand do away with the poor of the land,
5. saying,‘When will the New Moon be overthat we may sell grain,and the Sabbath be endedthat we may market wheat?’ –skimping on the measure,boosting the priceand cheating with dishonest scales,
6. buying the poor with silverand the needy for a pair of sandals,selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
7. The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: ‘I will never forget anything they have done.
8. ‘Will not the land tremble for this,and all who live in it mourn?The whole land will rise like the Nile;it will be stirred up and then sinklike the river of Egypt.
9. ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord,‘I will make the sun go down at noonand darken the earth in broad daylight.