8. He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה require of you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?
9. The voice of יהוה cries to the city – and let sound wisdom see Your Name! “Hear the Rod and Him who appointed it!
10. “Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”
11. Would I be innocent with wrong scales, and with a bag of false weights?
12. “For her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.
13. “So I also, I shall smite you with a grievous wound, to lay you waste because of your sins:
14. “You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your inside be empty. And you shall store up but not save, and what you save I shall give to the sword.
15. “You shall sow but not reap, you shall tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and make sweet wine but not drink wine.