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Economic injustice—selling the needy, crushing the poor, and manipulating markets—reveals covenant unfaithfulness and provokes divine response.
This theme appears in passages such as Micah, Amos, where the Bible develops it through story, instruction, warning, and promise. In Micah 2:1–2 the prophet announces “woe” on people who plan wrongdoing in the safety of night and then carry it out as soon as morning comes. Their ability to do it is part of the problem: they act because they have the power to get away with it. In Amos 2:6–8 Yahweh announces that Israel’s wrongdoing has piled up to the point that he will not hold back their punishment.
Start with Micah 2:1-2, Amos 2:6-8, Micah 2:1-2, then follow the related passages in their own setting before drawing broad conclusions.
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6Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes
7those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble: and a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
10For they don`t know to do right, says Yahweh, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
1Hear this word, you cattle of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that tell their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
2The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, that behold, the days shall come on you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.
3You shall go out at the breaches, everyone straight before her; and you shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, says Yahweh.
10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of it.
4Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5saying, 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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
8But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you strip the robe from off the garment from those who pass by securely [as men] returned from war.
9The women of my people you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.
1I said, Please hear, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
2you who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
9Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11The heads of it judge for reward, and the priests of it teach for hire, and the prophets of it divine for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Is not Yahweh in the midst of us? no evil shall come on us.
10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
2The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asks, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.