Holy Scripture
Amos 8:5
A church father on this verse
“(V. 4, seqq.) Listen to this, you who crush the poor and make the needy of the earth fail, saying: When the month passes, we will sell our goods, and on the Sabbath, we will open the granary to decrease the measure and increase the weight; we will use deceitful scales to possess the poor in silver and sell the refuse…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the Sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
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In context
3And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon them.
4Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
— Amos 8:5 —
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.
7The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.