The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
because they did not listen to the Lord their God but violated his covenant #– #all he had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.
to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord because I have become rich!” Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.