unto those of you that are mighty, that are princes, that mingle
strong drink, which justify the wicked for reward, and take
justice from the just, and turn aside the judgement from the
needy, and take away the right from the poor, that the widow may
be their spoil and the fatherless their prey! And what will they
do in the day of visitation, and to whom will they flee for help?
And where will they leave their glory, that they fall not into
arrest? Like as stubble shall be burnt by live coal of fire, and
consumed by kindled flame, so their root shall be as foam, and
their blossom shall go up as dust, for they would not the law of
the Lord of hosts, and provoked the oracle of the Holy One of
Israel."

"In tune therewith saith also another prophet, `The great day of
the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. The bitter and austere
voice of the day of the Lord hath been appointed. A mighty day
of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness and desolation, a day of blackness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm.
And I will bring distress upon the wicked, and they shall walk
like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord's wrath; for the whole land shall be
devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make a
riddance of all them that dwell in the land.' Moreover David,
the king and prophet, crieth thus, `God shall come visibly, even
our God, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled
before him, and a mighty tempest round about him. He shall call
the heaven from above, and the earth, that he may judge his
people.' And again he saith, `Arise, O God, judge thou the