September 18th : First Reading I will never forget your deeds, you who trample on the needyA Reading from the Book of Amos 8: 4-7

September 18th : First Reading 

I will never forget your deeds, you who trample on the needy

A Reading from the Book of Amos 8: 4-7 

Listen to this, you who trample on the needy

and try to suppress the poor people of the country,

you who say, ‘When will New Moon be over

so that we can sell our corn,

and sabbath, so that we can market our wheat?

Then by lowering the bushel, raising the shekel,

by swindling and tampering with the scales,

we can buy up the poor for money,

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and get a price even for the sweepings of the wheat.’

The Lord swears it by the pride of Jacob,

‘Never will I forget a single thing you have done.’

The Word of the Lord.