⁷ Keep silent before the Lord God, for the Day of the Lord is at hand. Yes, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated those who will attend it. ⁸ This is what will take place on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice: I will deal with the officials and the king’s sons and with all those who wear foreign clothing. ⁹ In the same day I will also deal with all who leap over the threshold,^[a] who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

¹⁰ On that day, declares the Lord, there will be crying from the Fish Gate and wailing from the Second Quarter and the sound of a great crashing from the hills. ¹¹ Wail, you who sit in the marketplace,^[b] for all the merchants are destroyed. All those who weigh out silver will be cut off.

¹² At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, to deal with the men who are complacent, like wine resting on its dregs, who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do anything good. Neither will he do anything bad.” ¹³ Therefore their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a ruin. They will build houses but never live in them. They will plant vineyards, but they will not drink the wine.