6. For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7. The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
8. But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
9. Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
10. For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come.
11. Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
12. Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13. Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
14. For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
15. Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
16. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
17. The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.