buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

好用银子买贫寒人，用一双鞋换穷乏人，将坏了的麦子卖给人。”

用银子买贫寒人，以一双鞋换贫穷人，把坏的谷物卖给人。”

用银子买贫寒人，以一双鞋换贫穷人，把坏的谷物卖给人。”

你们用银子买贫民，以一双鞋买穷人为奴，售卖掺了糠秕的麦子。

我们用银子买穷人，用一双鞋换取穷乏人；连麦碎也卖掉。”

好用銀子買貧寒人，用一雙鞋換窮乏人，將壞了的麥子賣給人。

用銀子買貧寒人，以一雙鞋換貧窮人，把壞的穀物賣給人。」

用銀子買貧寒人，以一雙鞋換貧窮人，把壞的穀物賣給人。」

你們用銀子買貧民，以一雙鞋買窮人為奴，售賣摻了糠秕的麥子。

我們用銀子買窮人，用一雙鞋換取窮乏人；連麥碎也賣掉。”

好用銀子收買貧寒人，用一雙鞋換得窮苦人，將棄置為垃圾的麥子賣給人？』

以銀購窮乏、以屨易貧民、以劣麥出售、

以金市窮民、以履易貧者、以朽穀鬻於人。

以金市貧民、以雙履之值市窮者、以朽穀鬻於人、

You buy poor people to make slaves out of them. You buy those who are in need for a mere pair of sandals. You even sell the worthless parts of your wheat.

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;[ yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

This is what the Lord says:“ For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

“‘ If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

and said:“ As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.

Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.Some were saying,“ We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Still others were saying,“ We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.

Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,