^{10 Ref} They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

^{11 Ref} Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

^{12 Ref} For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

^{13 Ref} Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

^{14 Ref} Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.