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.