"For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence."
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Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.