13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.
14. Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
15. Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.