9. The voice of Yahweh calls to the city (it is sound judgment to fear your name): “Hear, O staff! 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?
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, 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.