⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor^(A) of the land,^(B)

“When will the New Moon^(C) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(D) wheat?”^(E)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(F) with dishonest scales,^(G)
6 buying the poor^(H) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(I)

⁸ “Will not the land tremble^(M) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.^(N)

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(O)
10 I will turn your religious festivals^(P) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(Q)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(R)
    and shave^(S) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(T)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(U)

⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[a]?”^(A)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(B) from Caphtor^[b](C)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(D)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(E) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(F)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(G) is shaken in a sieve,^(H)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(I)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,^(J)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^(K)

“I will restore David’s^(L) fallen shelter^(M)—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins^(N)—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,^(O)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^(P)
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[c](Q)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.^(R)

“when the reaper^(T) will be overtaken by the plowman^(U)
    and the planter by the one treading^(V) grapes.
New wine^(W) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(X)
14     and I will bring^(Y) my people Israel back from exile.^[d](Z)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(AA) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(AB) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(AC)
15 I will plant^(AD) Israel in their own land,^(AE)
    never again to be uprooted^(AF)
    from the land I have given them,”^(AG)

says the Lord your God.^(AH)