¹² For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous, you foes of the righteous, those who take a bribe, and those who^[a] push aside the poor ones in the gate! ¹³ Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it is a time of evil. ¹⁴ Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.