And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

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

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!