8
He has declared unto thee, O man, what
is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do
right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.
9
The LORD’s voice cries
out unto the city, and
the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and
he who has established it.
10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure
that is abominable?
11
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12
With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue
is deceitful in their mouth.
13
Therefore I have also made
thee weak in smiting thee, in making
thee desolate because of thy sins.
14
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take, but shalt not be saved; and
that which thou dost save, I will give it up to the sword.
15
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with the oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink the wine.
16
For the statutes of Omri have been kept and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.