Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take
away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God. Ye shall
have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and
the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the
tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer:
the measure thereof shall be after the homer. And the shekel shall
be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen
shekels, shall be your maneh[53] (verses 9-12).
[53] The sixtieth part of a talent, about fifty shekels.
The princes who used to oppress the people, shall no longer oppress
(verse 8). They are to execute judgment and justice. Every measure is to
be just. The time has come when righteousness reigns. "He shall judge
the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and
shall break in pieces the oppressor" (Ps. lxxii:4). No longer will the
poor be down-trodden.