10. They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11. Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12. For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.
14. Seek that which is good, and not that which is evil that ye may live; and so the Lord, the God of the hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15. Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the Lord God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.