Bible Verse

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

Amos 5:11

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

Amos 8:4

saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,

Amos 8:5

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