11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor(A)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone(B)
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.(C)

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11 You levy a straw tax on the poor(A)
    and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,(B)
    you will not live in them;(C)
though you have planted lush vineyards,
    you will not drink their wine.(D)

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Hear this, you who trample on the needy(A)
and do away with the poor of the land,(B)

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Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor(A) of the land,(B)

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They covet fields(A) and seize them;(B)
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,(C)
a person of his inheritance.(D)

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They covet fields(A) and seize them,(B)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud(C) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.(D)

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You force(A) the women of my people
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take my blessing[a](B)
from their children forever.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 Perhaps the land

You drive the women of my people
    from their pleasant homes.(A)
You take away my blessing
    from their children forever.

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