The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand, they intertwine, they rise on my neck. He caused my strength to stumble. The Lord gave me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.
saying, When will the new moon have passed, so that we may buy grain? Or the sabbath, so that we may open the wheat, to make small the ephah, and to make greater the shekel, and to falsify the deceitful balances,
forbidding us from speaking to the nations in order that they be saved, to the filling up of their sins always. But the wrath of God is come on them to the end.