7. The merchants use dishonest scales;they like to cheat people.
8. Israel said, “I am rich! I am someone with power!”All their money will do them no goodbecause of the sins they have done.
9. “But I am the Lord your God,who brought you out of Egypt.I will make you live in tents againas you used to do on worship days.
10. I spoke to the prophetsand gave them many visions;through them, I taught my lessons to you.”
11. The people of Gilead are evil,worth nothing.Though people sacrifice bulls at Gilgal,their altars will become like piles of stonein a plowed field.
12. Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamiawhere he worked to get a wife;he tended sheep to pay for her.
13. Later the Lord used a prophetto bring Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt;he used a prophetto take care of the Israelites.
14. But the Israelites made the Lord angry when they killed other people,and they deserve to die for their crimes.The Lord will make them payfor the disgraceful things they have done.