9. Thus hath the Lord of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
10. and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
11. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore came there great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
13. And it came to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear; so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said the Lord of hosts;
14. but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.