10. Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of wickedness,while the shorted basket is denounced?
11. Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights
12. in a city whose wealthy are full of violenceand whose inhabitants speak falsehoodwith lying tongues in their mouths?
13. So I have made you sick by striking you!I have struck you because of your sins.
14. You devour, but you aren’t satisfied;a gnawing emptiness is within you.You put something aside,but you don’t keep it safe.That which you do try to keep safe,I will give to the sword.
15. You sow, but you don’t gather.You tread down olives, but you don’t anoint with oil;you tread grapes, but don’t drink wine.
16. Yet you have kept the policies of Omri,all the practices of the house of Ahab;you have followed their counsels.Therefore, I will make you a sign of destruction,your inhabitants an object of hissing!You must bear the reproach of my people.