The Destruction of the Wicked

• 9 The voice of Yahweh calls to the city ( it is sound judgment to fear your name):
• “Hear, O staff![fn] Now who has appointed it?
• 10 Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness,
• and the ephah of scarcity which is accursed?[fn]
• 11 Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
• 12 Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies,
• and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• 13 And I also have made you sick by striking you down ,[fn] making you desolate because of your sins.
• 14 You yourself will eat but not be satisfied; your hunger will be in your midst,
• and you will put away, but you will not save,
  • and what you save I will hand over to the sword.
  • 15 You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil;
  • you will tread grapes, but you will not drink wine.
  • 16 For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab.
• And you have walked in their counsels,
  • so that I am making you a desolation
• and your inhabitants an object of scorn.
  • So you will bear the scorn of my people.