⁹ The voice of Yahweh calls to the city
    (it is sound judgment to fear your name):
    “Hear, O staff!^[a] Now who has appointed it?
¹⁰ Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked
    treasures of wickedness,
    and the ephah of scarcity which is accursed?^[b]
11 Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness,
    and with a bag of deceitful weights?
¹² Because her rich are full of violence,
    and her inhabitants speak lies,
    and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
¹³ And I also have made you sick by striking you down,^[c]
    making you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴ You yourself will eat but not be satisfied;
    your hunger will be in your midst,
and you will put away, but you will not save,
    and what you save I will hand over to the sword.
¹⁵ You yourself will sow, but you will not reap;
    you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil;
    you will tread grapes, but you will not drink wine.
¹⁶ For you have observed the regulations of Omri
    and all the works of the house of Ahab.
And you have walked in their counsels,
    so that I am making you a desolation
and your inhabitants an object of scorn.
    So you will bear the scorn of my people.