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

The Lord has sworn(B) by the Pride of Jacob:[a](C)

I will never forget all their deeds.(D)
Because of this, won’t the land quake(E)
and all who dwell in it mourn?(F)
All of it will rise like the Nile;(G)
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 = the Lord or the promised land

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