23 Your princes are stubborn and partners with thieves.+ Every one of them is a lover of a bribe+ and a chaser after gifts.+ For a fatherless boy they do not render judgment; and even the legal case of a widow does not get admittance to them.+

27 As a cage is full of flying creatures, so their houses are full of deception.+ That is why they have become great and they gain riches.+

4 “Hear this word, YOU cows of Baʹshan,+ who are on the mountain of Sa·marʹi·a,+ who are defrauding the lowly ones,+ who are crushing the poor ones, who are saying to their masters, ‘Do bring, and let us drink!’

2 And they have desired fields and have seized [them];+ also houses, and have taken [them]; and they have defrauded an able-bodied man* and his household,+ a man* and his hereditary possession.+

10 Do there yet exist [in] the house of a wicked one the treasures of wickedness,+ and the scrimped eʹphah measure that is denounced?