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.
16. Therefore the Lord, the God of the hosts, the Lord, said this: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17. And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, said the Lord.