“For three sins of Israel,
    even for four, I will not relent.^(A)
They sell the innocent for silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals.^(B)
7 They trample on the heads of the poor
    as on the dust of the ground
    and deny justice to the oppressed.
Father and son use the same girl
    and so profane my holy name.^(C)

¹⁰ I brought you up out of Egypt^(A)
    and led^(B) you forty years in the wilderness^(C)
    to give you the land of the Amorites.^(D)

¹¹ “I also raised up prophets^(E) from among your children
    and Nazirites^(F) from among your youths.
Is this not true, people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.
¹² “But you made the Nazirites drink wine
    and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.^(G)

⁶ Seek^(A) the Lord and live,^(B)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;^(C)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel^(D) will have no one to quench it.^(E)

⁷ There are those who turn justice into bitterness^(F)
    and cast righteousness^(G) to the ground.^(H)

⁸ He who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(I)
    who turns midnight into dawn^(J)
    and darkens day into night,^(K)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.^(L)

¹² For I know how many are your offenses
    and how great your sins.^(A)

There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes^(B)
    and deprive the poor^(C) of justice in the courts.^(D)
13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet^(E) in such times,
    for the times are evil.^(F)

¹⁴ Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.^(G)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.
¹⁵ Hate evil,^(H) love good;^(I)
    maintain justice in the courts.^(J)
Perhaps^(K) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy^(L)
    on the remnant^(M) of Joseph.

²¹ “I hate,^(A) I despise your religious festivals;^(B)
    your assemblies^(C) are a stench to me.
²² Even though you bring me burnt offerings^(D) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.^(E)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.^(F)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(G)
24 But let justice^(H) roll on like a river,
    righteousness^(I) like a never-failing stream!^(J)

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
    and Israel will surely go into exile,^(E)
    away from their native land.’”^(F)