Holy Scripture
Amos 8:6
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
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.
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4Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
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?
— Amos 8:6 —
7The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.
8And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.