¹⁴ Seek good and not evil,
    that you may live,
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
    just as you have said.^(A)
15 Hate evil and love good,
    and establish justice in the gate;
it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.^(B)

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:
In all the squares there shall be wailing,
    and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!”
They shall call the farmers to mourning
    and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;^(C)