11. Therefore, because you trample on the poor,and take taxes from him of wheat:You have built houses of cut stone,but you will not dwell in them.You have planted pleasant vineyards,but you shall not drink their wine.
12. For I know how many your offences,and how great are your sins—you who afflict the just,who take a bribe,and who turn away the needy in the courts.
13. Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,for it is an evil time.
14. Seek good, and not evil,that you may live;and so the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be with you,as you say.
15. Hate evil, love good,and establish justice in the courts.It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16. Therefore the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:“Wailing will be in all the wide ways;and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’and they will call the farmer to mourning,and those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
17. In all vineyards there will be wailing;for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the Lord.
18. “Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!Why do you long for the day of the Lord?It is darkness,and not light.
19. As if a man fled from a lion,and a bear met him;Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,and a snake bit him.
20. Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21. I hate, I despise your feasts,and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
22. Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,I will not accept them;neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.