6. Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.
7. You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.
8. The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9. It is he who smiles destruction on the healthy, and who brings pillaging upon the powerful.
10. They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.
11. Therefore, on his behalf, because you have torn apart the poor and stolen choice prey from him: you will build houses with square stones and you will not dwell in them; you will plant the most delightful vineyards, and you will not drink wine from them.
12. For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.
13. Therefore, the prudent will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
14. Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. And the Lord God of hosts will be with you, just as you have asked.
15. Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16. Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Sovereign: In all the streets, there will be wailing. And in every place where they are outdoors, they will say, "Woe, woe!" And they will call the farmer to mourn, and those who know mourning to lamentation.