⁶ ‘^(A)Do not speak, dripping out words,’ they say while dripping out words.
But if ^[a]they do ^(B)not drip out words concerning these things,
^(C)Dishonor will not be turned back.
⁷ Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of Yahweh ^(D)impatient?
Are these His deeds?’
Do not My words ^(E)do good
To the one ^(F)walking uprightly?
^8 [b]And recently My people have arisen as an ^(G)enemy—
You ^(H)strip the ^[c]robe off the garment
From ^(I)unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.
⁹ The women of My people you ^(J)drive out,
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her infants you take My ^(K)splendor forever.
¹⁰ Arise and go,
For this is no place ^(L)of rest
Because of the ^(M)uncleanness that wreaks destruction,
A painful destruction.
¹¹ If a man walking after wind and ^(N)lying
Had acted falsely and said,
‘I will speak, dripping out words to you concerning ^(O)wine and liquor,’
He would be one who drips out words as a spokesman to ^(P)this people.